It is a domestic comedy, centered around the five-member apartment-dwelling Heller family, their endless bickering, and the elder daughter's suitor.

[3] The production, which starred Ruth Nugent, Clare Woodbury, and Walter Wilson,[4] ran on Broadway from August through October 1925 before going on tour.

Leads Supporting Featured The Hellers are a middle-class family that love one another, but often become quarrelsome due to being constrained to share a small apartment.

Meanwhile, little Annabelle makes desultory classic noises on the upright piano when driven to it, but sings Red Hot Mama when freed.

Charles proves a personable lad, and Emma tries to make Louise seem a "catch" by inflating the family's economic status.

When Charles comes to collect Louise on Sunday morning, he is made aware of the inflated expectations for modern brides through the chatter of Miss Callahan.

[11] The anonymous local reviewer for The Evening Star in Washington, D.C., gave a lot of credit to director Sam Forrest for the elaborate parlor setting, under the misapprehension of what the term "staged by" means.

[11] They also faulted star Ruth Nugent for not displaying emotional intensity in her outburst scene, and cited Claire Weldon, Lillian Garrick, and Theodore Westman for "histrionics".

Claire Weldon,[fn 2] who had played Emma Heller in the earlier tryouts was replaced by a Broadway newcomer, Clare Woodbury, while two featured parts were also recast.

[18][17] The reviewer for The New York Times thought the play "makes intelligent sport of a very real American characteristic-- the success idea, the 'selling' formula applied to domestic affairs".

[19] One reviewer thought the director had told his actors "to go to it with a vengeance",[17] and another decried the overacting of all save Ruth Nugent and Harold Elliott.