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- 1 2 Hobe (November 24, 1948). "Legitimate: Play on Broadway - Gooodbye My Fancy". Variety . 172 (12): 50.
- ↑ Chapman, John (ed.), The Burns Mantle Best Plays of 1948–1949, (1949) Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, pp. 333–367.
