Buster Keaton built his house seen in this film on 3-1/2 acres in Beverly Hills in 1925. Tom Mix was his next-door neighbor. Keaton lost the estate in his divorce from his wife Natalie Talmadge in 1932. She sold the property two months later. It was purchased in 1938 by glass manufacturing magnate John R. Owens for $250,000. After his death is was purchased by James Mason and his wife Pamela Mason for only $82,000 in 1949. They subdivided the estate, adding three additional lots, all off the newly-formed Pamela Drive, named for Mason's wife. As of 2019 the house and what remains of the grounds are still intact.
Buster Keaton's sporty little car that's smashed by the locomotive, is a 1930 American Austin Roadster. The manufacturer went bankrupt in 1934.
The play opened in New York City on 24 December 1917 at the Theatre Republic (New Victory since 1995), 209 W. 42nd St., and ran for 232 performances.