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Mistress Betty Treads a Measure was not one of Handley's more frequently performed plays, and little is known of its plot, barring that it is set in the eighteenth century, and seems to be a comedy of manners.
Production Details
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Originally produced by Isabel Handley for the Melbourne branch of the Repertory Players in August 1927: Handley also took a role, as well as writing and producing the play.
Repeated again as part of the Australian Literature Society evening of one-act Australian plays, on 31 August 1927, with a cast including Isabel Handley, Edith Appleton, Walter Armstrong, and Les Faulkner (again produced by Handley).
Sources:
'Amateur Productions', Table Talk, 8 September 1927, p.38.
'The Repertory Players', Australasian, 6 August 1927, p.380.
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