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- ↑ Evans, Edwin. "Arthur Bliss". The Musical Times , February 1923, pp. 95–99, accessed 21 March 2011 (subscription required)
- ↑ Anastasia Belina; Derek B. Scott (30 November 2019). The Cambridge Companion to Operetta. Cambridge University Press. p. 252. ISBN 978-1-107-18216-5.
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- ↑ Colin Larkin (2002). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Fifties Music. Virgin Books. p. 343. ISBN 978-1-85227-937-0.
- ↑ Stewart R. Craggs (1998). Malcolm Arnold: A Bio-bibliography. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-313-29254-5.
- ↑ "Mrs George Formby's Own Story". The Sunday Post . Dundee. 13 February 1921. p. 16.
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- ↑ Nancy Benko, 'Barnes, Gustave Adrian (1877–1921)', Australian Dictionary of Biography , Volume 7, MUP, 1979, pp 179–180.
- ↑ Gänzl, Kurt (2001). "Ivan Caryll". The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre, Second Edition. Schirmer Books. p. 327. ISBN 0-02-864970-2.