The play's appearance on Broadway was suppressed when New York City officials threatened not to renew the operating license of the theater.

[1][2] After early performances in Trenton, New Jersey,[3] producer Al Woods brought the play to Broadway, with sultry vaudeville actress Valeska Suratt in the lead role.

Trenton police had attended a rehearsal and declared the play fit for performance after some mild censorship,[4] but when it came to New York, Mayor William Jay Gaynor viewed it less favorably.

After unsatisfactory meetings with Baker and Gaynor, Woods went to the New York Supreme Court on May 9, 1910, to get an injunction preventing the police from closing down the play.

The judge gave Woods the order he requested, but while it prevented the authorities from interfering with the show directly, it did not compel them to renew the license for the theater.