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- ↑ The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality - Volume 51 - Page 242 1905 "Mr. Hall Caine's dramatisation of his own extraordinarily successful novel, “The Prodigal Son," changes all this. This year the Drury Lane drama stands for the romantic, almost the poetic, in life, and-that though the story is of the present ...
- ↑ "Heard in the Green-Room". The Sketch. 6 September 1905. p. 37.
- ↑ Barker, Clive; Trussler, Simon (1999). New Theatre Quarterly 57: Volume 15, Part 1. UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 28. ISBN 978-0-521-65601-6.
- ↑ Robertson, Patrick (1985). Movie Facts and Feats: A Guinness Record Book . New York: Sterling Pub Co Inc. p. 35. ISBN 978-0-85112-278-6.
