Based on the hit play of the same name, the comedy, starring H. Reeves Smith as "Jinks" and Ethel Barrymore as "Madam Trentoni," debuted at the Garrick Theatre on Broadway on 4 Feb 1901 and ran for a respectable 168 performances before closing the following June. It reopened briefly in that fall and enjoyed two less successful revivals in 1907 and 1938. The play was originally produced by Charles Frohman, a legendary figure on Broadway who had died in the sinking of the Lusitania on May 7, 1915 at age 64.