One for My Baby is the best evocation of the nightclub scene I've read. For many of us who were in the hungry i audiences, it is impossible not to superimpose reality on fiction, yet the Night Box is fictional. The story is of the personal lives, the dressing room rages, the off-stage agony and the after-hours turmoil—of which audiences have only a shadowy glimmer. When the show is over for the star, the music-makers, the hard up and profligate owner, the waiters or hatcheck girl, lucky they all are to have a Dan Noble to raise and dim their personal lights with a sensitive antenna for the red light emergency. Bessie's touch is certain, his dialogue is accurate. (p. 30)

Rita Fink [R. Maria Fazioli], "Re-creating the Nightclub Feeling," in Pacific Sun (copyright © 1980 Pacific Sun Publishing Co., Inc.), Year 18, No. 36, September 5-11, 1980, pp. 29-30.