A copy of the lost film has been found in a old movie theatre in Hattem, The Netherlands in March 2014.
Released in the Netherlands as "Squibs als Tip-toes; De Koningin van de Music-halls" (Squibbs as Tip-toes; The Queen of the Music Halls) to take advantage of the popularity of Betty Balfour's best-known character in that country.
The film was released in the UK in June 1923 and premiered in the Netherlands on Oct 12, 1923, at the famous Amsterdam Tuschinski theatre.
Contemporary press reports hailed the film as a triumph, a screen classic and a masterpiece. For the Daily Telegraph the film was "destined in all probability to take its place among the screen classics", while the Manchester Guardian considered it " certainly the most ambitious [of Pearson's films], spectacular at times, lit and photographed with a beauty to dream of," concluding, "devotees have called it George Pearson's masterpiece, and so it is".
Betty Balfour (1903-1978) was best known as the comic character 'Squibs', in a hugely popular series of films, also directed by 'George Pearson' through the 1920s. She was much in demand as a popular foreign export and worked with leading directors in Germany, Austria and France including Marcel L'Herbier. She stars in Alfred Hitchcock's 1928 silent, Champagne (1928) as a heiress. Reflecting the immense popularity of Balfour's Squibs character among the Dutch audiences, the Dutch release title was "Squibs als Tip-toes; De Koningin van de Music-halls" (Squibs as Tip-Toes; the queen of the music-halls).