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- ↑ "Actor Adapts Son's Play For Radio Cappy Ricks Plays For Broadcast", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, vol. 36, no. 46, Sydney: Wireless Press, 15 November 1941, nla.obj-722446538, retrieved 17 March 2024– via Trove
- ↑ "Saloon Bar". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
