The musical also contains some additional song material by composer Jackson Gouraud and lyricist George Sidney, and contained "coon songs" by Will Marion Cook and Sidney L.
The production was produced and directed by George W. Lederer and used costumes designed by Caroline Seidle.
[2] The original production starred Dan Daly as Upson Downes, an unemployed New Yorker trying to get by in Paris, France.
Downes learns that the heiress Olive Green (portrayed by Virginia Earle) is betrothed to a baron whom her family has never met.
He disguises himself and pretends to be the baron, fooling Olive and her father, De Long Green (portrayed by George A. Schiller).