The play opened on Broadway, New York City, New York, USA on 5 February 1924 and had 571 performances. In the cast were Guy D'Ennery (Frank Hyland), Helen Lowell (Mrs. Fisher), Lee Tracy (Joe) and Francis Pierlot. The popular play had 6 Broadway revivals, the last in 1992.
A copy uploaded onto YouTube started with the MGM lion replacing the Paramount mountain, presumably because MGM bought the rights for remake purposes.
Clara Blandick, playing Ma Fisher, repeats this same role four years later in the remake, The Show-Off (1934).