Staged by Monty Woolley, the cast starred Beatrice Lillie, the comedy team of Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough, and Evelyn Hoey.

The production design, by Boris Aronson, featured an innovative use of stage curtains; for example, one was shaped like an iris lens.

According to an account by Stanley Green, the idea for this song title came about as Duke and friends were talking about Paris in a restaurant.

[3] Bea Lillie was a 1906 college girl, Penelope Goldfarb ("Scamp of the Campus"); the belle of the Yukon, "Frisco Fanny"; a radio songstress,and a French chanteuse ("Quel Bijou").

One of the sketches was a take-off on another show, Flying Colors, in which Clark pretended to be Clifton Webband Lillie was Tamara Geva.