Cheating Cheaters (play)

The play is a melodramatic farce about two groups of jewel thieves who are each posing as a wealthy family in order to rob the other.

Because her love for Tom is real and not just part of her cover, she offers him the opportunity to confess and join her agency rather than be turned over to the police.

[4] After the Broadway run it went to London's West End, opening at the Strand Theatre in February 1918 with Shirley Kellogg playing Nan.

[5] The characters and cast from the Broadway production are given below: The New York Times gave a positive review, saying it was "an interesting play that is entertaining all the way through".

[8] In The Evening World, reviewer Charles Darnton called the Eltinge Theatre the "temple of crook-drama" with Woods as its high priest.

He said Marcin had written a well-executed version of a common story, but it was entertainment "of the moment" that served only to pass an evening.

[9] In 1919, actress Clara Kimball Young produced a silent film based on the play, retaining the title Cheating Cheaters.