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- ↑ Burns Mantle, Garrison P. Sherwood, ed. (1932). "Coastwise". The Best Plays and the Year Book of the Drama in America, 1931. Dodd, Mead & Co. p. 441.
- ↑ David C. Tucker (2008). Shirley Booth: A Biography and Career Record. McFarland & Company. p. 143. ISBN 9780786436002.
