The play first had some tryout runs, including in upstate New York[1][2] and Philadelphia in January-February 1920,[3] but a middling reception delayed a planned Broadway debut.

[5] Critic Burns Mantle's annual review of plays called it "a smartly written and splendidly entertaining little comedy ... in which Roland Young's performance was highly commended.

"[6] Alexander Woollcott deemed it "a kind of airy and capricious nonsense which was familiar enough in the best of Oscar Wilde.

"[7] Writing for New York Tribune, Heywood Broun wrote "the best of it seems to us to be the finest work which Miss Kummer has yet done for the theatre, which means that it is far and away beyond the capacity of any other American writer of light comedy, with the possible exception of Booth Tarkington.

"[9] Charles Darnton of the New York World was much kinder, writing that the play "reaped whirlwinds of laughter and won new laurels" for Kummer, and praised Roland Young's performance.