The short was filmed on a soundstage under hot studio lights, and at the time the building didn't have air conditioning. Stan Laurel's daughter Lois later recalled how hot and muggy the set was and how the fake snow kept melting. Shots had to be retaken. Once the director said "Cut!", both Laurel and Hardy took off their winter coats because it was so hot inside the studio.
This film was simultaneously produced and filmed in a Spanish language version entitled "Tiembla y Titubea (1930)," in which the original actors spoke their own lines. Laurel and Hardy read their lines from cue cards on which Spanish was written phonetically. At the time of early talkies, dubbing was not yet perfected.
The initials on the stolen wallet are "FH." These are the initials of the actor Frank Holliday who's playing the part of the policeman whose wallet is missing.
As the boys are playing, Kay Deslys calls out the window to Mr. Whiteman, a famous orchestra leader.(Paul Whiteman and Orchestra) for much of the first half of the 20th century. Coincidentally, he looked a great deal like Oliver Hardy.
Blanche Payson played the woman who destroys the boys' instruments. She stood 6'4" and had been a prison guard and LA policewoman before terrorizing heroes for Hal Roach and Mack Sennett.