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- ↑ "Going to the Movies", Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 9 March 2024
- 1 2 Julie Malnig, Review of Lollipop: Vaudeville Turns with a Fanchon and Marco Dancer by Reva Howitt Clar, Mimi Melnick, Dance Research Journal, Vol. 37, No. 2, Women's Health in Dance (Winter, 2005), pp. 106-110
- ↑ "Prologs for the Picture Palaces", Vaudeville Nation, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Retrieved 9 March 2024
- 1 2 "Movie Prologues", Bijou Blog, January 2, 2009. Retrieved 9 March 2024
- ↑ Anthony Slide, "Fanchon and Marco", The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville, University Press of Mississippi, 2012, pp.167-168
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