The story concerns a widow who accidentally maneuvers two young suburban couples into a big city restaurant and brings romance to them and herself.

[1] A version of the show was produced in 1912 under the title A Winsome Widow, and a film adaptation featuring Anna May Wong was made in 1926.

Beginning in 1883, he began a career as a playwright, producing a series of twenty farcical comedies (roughly one per year until his death) and a comic opera.

[4] Versions of the script can be found in the 1941 Princeton University Press collection, Five Plays by Charles Hoyt edited by Douglas L. Hunt.

[1] Two young men in San Francisco tell their wealthy but strict guardian, Uncle Ben, that they are going on an educational sightseeing trip to Chinatown.

[7] A silent film adaptation of the musical was released in 1926, called A Trip to Chinatown, starring Margaret Livingston and featuring Anna May Wong and Charles Farrell.