The title is based on the 'George Bernard Shaw' play "Pgymalion". The original Broadway production opened at the Park Theater on October 12, 1914 and ran for 72 performances. The play premiered in a German translation at the Hofburg Theatre in Vienna on October 16, 1913 and in English at His Majesty's Theatre in London on April 11, 1914 and starred 'Mrs Patrick Campbell'.