Opened at the Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre on August 9, 1916. Closed April 14, 1917 after 286 performances — 8 months. Cheating Cheaters is a 1916 play written by Max Marcin. Producer A. H. Woods staged it on Broadway. 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. Wiki link