The original Broadway production of "The Fair Co-Ed" by George Ade opened at the Knickerbocker Theater on February 1, 1909 and ran for 136 performances.
From a box advert in The San Bernardino Daily Sun, San Bernardino, California, Wednesday 12 October 1927, Volume LXI, Number 42, page 4:
...A STOCKINGLESS STORY OF A CAMPUS CUTIE.....
...A STOCKINGLESS STORY OF A CAMPUS CUTIE.....
Young Lou Costello, Joel McCrea and Jacques Tourneur worked as extras in this production. The later director Jacques Tourneur is visible as one of the freshmen, who watch the first verbal exchange between Marion and Dean Early.