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- ↑ Internet Broadway Database
- ↑ Over 21 Brightly Staged, Acted as Amusing Community; Review of Rochester Community Players production; Rochester Democrat & Chronicle article by George L. David, Dec. 16, 1945
- ↑ http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/182357%7C0/Over-21.html [ bare URL ]