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- 1 2 "BRILLIANT SHOW AT THE WINTER GARDEN; Color, Dance, Song, and Fun, with an Added Touch of Effective Spectacle". The New York Times . January 11, 1914. p. 15.
- 1 2 Dan Dietz (2021). "The Whirl of the World". The Complete Book of 1910s Broadway Musicals. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 253–254. ISBN 9781538150283.
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