Suttle was well known as a cakewalk artist and vaudeville performer in Chicago.

[1][2] An African American, he was a pioneering performer in early film of the late 19th-century.

[5] In 2022, the film was included in the exhibition Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898 – 1971 at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, an exhibition with the objective of showing the contributions of Black artists and filmmakers from the start of the American film industry, that at times pushed against the conventional stereotypes.

[6] Suttle and Brown are pictured on the 1898 sheet music for William H. Krell's "Shake Yo' Duster".

[7] Suttle, Brown, John Brewster and Maud Brewster performed as a group called, "The Rag-Time Four" that was responsible for popularizing a variation of the cakewalk dance.