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- ↑ "MAXINE ELLIOTT IN A NEW PLAY.; Clyde Fitch's "Her Own Way" Well Received at Buffalo". The New York Times . September 25, 1903. p. 7.
- 1 2 Arthur Hobson Quinn (1927). A History of the American Drama from the Civil War to the Present Day, Volume 2. p. 290.
