Although originally released in 2-strip Technicolor, the film only survives in black and white. The narrower surviving sound on film version is apparently the sole source of today's television prints, resulting in a loss of image on the left hand side which becomes all too apparent in the lop-sided musical numbers and cropped newspaper headline inserts.
In a separately filmed trailer, Vitaphone production reel #4094, Bernice Claire and Edward Everett Horton talk to the audience about the picture.
Completed in 1930, and reviewed in Photoplay Magazine in August 1930 as "Toast of the Legion", the film did not open in New York City until 7 January 1931.
The musical play opened on Broadway in New York City, New York, USA on 25 September 1905 and closed 16 June 1906 after 202 performances. After the hot summer months, it reopened on 1 September 1906 for another 22 performance. Considered a big hit, it went on tour for 3 years.
Vitaphone production reels #4211-4218.