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- ↑ Faxon, Frederick Winthrop, ed. (1913). The Dramatic Index for 1912. The Boston Book Company. p. 202.
- ↑ "Things Talked About Among Theatre Folk". New York Sun . July 15, 1912. p. 9.
- ↑ "News of the Local Theatres". Washington Herald . October 27, 1912. p. 20.
- ↑ Mantle, Burns; Sherwood, Garrison P. "Our Wives". The Best Plays of 1909-1919. Dodd, Mead & Co.
- ↑ Dan Dietz (2021) [1943]. "The Only Girl". The Complete Book of 1910s Broadway Musicals. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 291–292. ISBN 9781538150283.
- ↑ "Amusements: New National". Washington Evening Star . October 29, 1912. p. 5.