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- ↑ "Henrietta Drake-Brockman". The Sun . No. 1826. New South Wales, Australia. 27 March 1938. p. 3 (Supplement to the Sunday Sun and Guardian Magazine). Retrieved 7 September 2023– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Winning Play". The Sydney Morning Herald . No. 31, 304. New South Wales, Australia. 2 May 1938. p. 9. Retrieved 7 September 2023– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ Rees, Leslie (1953). Towards An Australian Drama. p. 120.
- ↑ "New South Wales Commercial Programmes", ABC Weekly, Sydney, 10 (41), 9 October 1948, retrieved 7 September 2023– via Trove