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- ↑ Bordman, Gerald Martin. American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle, Oxford University Press (2010), p. 385 ISBN 0199729700
- ↑ Dan Dietz (2021). "Sometime". The Complete Book of 1910s Broadway Musicals. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 448–449. ISBN 9781538150283.
- ↑ Sometime at the Internet Broadway Database
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