The story concerns befuddled George, who elopes with Lou Ellen, the daughter of Judge Carter.

His dapper polo champion friend Jim is in love with madcap actress Jackie, but George must hide her while she extricates herself from a scrape with a bumbling constable whom she punched at a party raid.

[2] Theatre agent Elisabeth Marbury asked Kern and Bolton to write a series of musicals specifically tailored to its smaller setting, with an intimate style and modest budgets, that would provide an alternative to the star-studded extravaganzas of Ziegfeld and others.

Kern and Bolton's first Princess Theatre musical was Nobody's Home (1915), an adaptation of a London show called Mr. Popple of Ippleton.

[1] British humorist and lyricist/playwright P. G. Wodehouse had supplied some lyrics for Very Good Eddie but now joined the team at the Princess.

[2] The authors deliberately attempted to have the humor flow from the plot situations, rather than from musical set pieces.

[3] In 1918, Dorothy Parker described in Vanity Fair how the Princess Theatre shows integrated story and music: "Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern are my favorite indoor sport.

Charm was uppermost in the creators' minds ... the audience could relax, have a few laughs, feel slightly superior to the silly undertakings on stage, and smile along with the simple, melodic, lyrically witty but undemanding songs".

was first performed, as a tryout, in Schenectady, New York,[5] before receiving its Broadway premiere on February 20, 1917 at the Princess Theatre.

It ran for 463 performances (the last few months at the Casino Theatre), making it the third-longest running Broadway musical in the 1910s.

was produced by George Grossmith, Jr., containing some modified lyrics, and starring Beatrice Lillie as Jackie – her first role in a book musical.

Jim's polo team has won a silver cup, and he's brought all his friends to George's house to celebrate.

However, Jim decides to continue the party and goes into the dining room with his friends to find some food and drink.

They go into the bedroom, and Jim and his friends return to the living room, not knowing George is home with Lou Ellen.

The landlord insists that the party must end, and everyone leaves, as George and Lou Ellen go to find a taxi to take her home.

Jim is left alone in the apartment when a pretty girl with a gun enters and explains she is escaping from the police.

Jim offers to go back to the cabaret, find her handbag, and make Tootles absolve Jackie of any blame.

At the Medowsides Country Club, Jim and his friends begin the trophy ceremony with a song ("Koo-La-Loo").

Mrs. Carter dislikes George and persuades her husband to forbid Lou Ellen to speak to him ("Oh Daddy, Please").

Aunt Penelope feels faint and asks for a glass of water but accidentally takes Jackie's drink.

Simms jumps at the chance to arrest him and rushes to empty his hands, giving Jackie's handbag to Judge Carter.