Show Crook Play of Thrills At At the A the Wilkes Willies Tonight lt xv rJ v G p a t tz z ii rz r S r c M Y Scene from Marcin's great drama Ch eating Cheaters which will be presented presented presented pre pre- all this week by tho the W Wilkes Players with Nana Bryant triumph after another has been the r record cord of the Wilkes players this I season They have have presented every sort of play ranging from farce to the most emotional t type pe of ot drama and each offering has b been en gr greeted eted with marked approval During this week however the players are expected to reach the culminating culminating culminating cul cul- point of this long line of successes successes successes suc suc- with their presentation of Cheating Cheaters which opens to tonight tonight tonight to- to night This is the mystery crook drama a combination of thrills and intrigue ue th that t has as yet never been excelled It is the play that made Marjorie Rambeau a star among stars on the American stage and it has had success everywhere it has been produced The action of the play starts with the attempts of a gang of high class crooks to steal worth of jewels from the Palmer famil family After following the owners of the gems over overto overto overto to Europe and incidentally being on the same vessel 1 with them the gang finally succeeds s In he es establishing establishing es- es intimate social with them and taking a country house next to theirs Their intrigue is furthered by ho tho tad tact that Ruth Brockton their X J r 1 young loader leader is the tho object ct of a romantic attao attachment ment on the part of ot young joung Tom Palmer Ruth uses this circumstance to win the confidence of I the they f family and is finally invited to their home hom f for r a stay of several days While there Tom Torn innocently shows show her the combination of the safe in which tf the f kept ept She takes full Advantage d of ot his confidence by stealing them the same night To her utter r i amazement however when she returns to her own home she she- finds T Tom l has preceded her He has been caught holding up P one of the gang at the tho point of a revolver and andis is bound hand hind and foot in a room of the gangs gang's headquarters The action thus far has been swift and absorbingly interesting But Dut now events take on an even more startling character and the tho observer is soon utterly ut utterly utterly ut- ut terly baffled trying to guess how it itis itis itis is all n going to come out Nana Nam Bryant has a great opportunity opportunity In the part of tho brilliant dashing young woman who leads the crooks and and she can be relied upon to tomake tomako tomako mako make the most mOt of It She will be ably supported d by tho the entire Wilkes cast Cheaters will play every ev ry night with w Thursday matinees noes ani an Saturday ar I I ts- ts |