The two-strip Technicolor sequence, running approximately 500 feet, occurs in the film's third reel - a musical number entitled "Dust," performed on stage by May Boley and a chorus of girls dressed as devils, while Lawrence Gray looks on. The sequence survives in black-and-white in the Turner Classic Movies print, and was used again in Roast-Beef and Movies (1934), where portions of it survive in color, which can also be seen in That's Entertainment! III (1994).
"The Song Writer," the stage play on which this film was based, opened on Broadway at the 48th Street Theatre on August 13, 1928, where it ran for 56 performances.
The character of Andy Little, played by Benny Rubin, was typical of a prevalent novelty in the early sound era: exploiting ethnic types in an exaggerated and grotesque fashion that bordered on anti-Semitism. This mercifully brief trend began with character actor El Brendel's appearances in La vie en rose (1929) and Le monde en 1981 (1930).