The Master Thief (play)

The Master Thief is a mystery play based on a story by Richard Washburn Child, dramatized by playwright E. E. Rose. It has sixteen speaking roles. 
Although it was reported in the press that there were plans to film the story, this never came to pass.
Summary.
A 1919 news story about a performance states:
Another news account states: 
Performances.
Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne, who married in 1918, successfully toured the production for eight months, from at least October 1919 until July 1920, produced by Oliver Morosco. The production then returned to the East Coast for a 38-week run in New York City.
Admission charged at Sacramento, California, probably typical of the era, was 50 cents and one dollar for a matinee, and a dollar and $1.50 for evening performances.
Background.
When the Morosco production played Seattle, the "Post-Intelligencer" interviewed Beverly Bayne, and reported that the play was apparently suggested by an incident in Child’s then-famous Paymaster stories, in which his anti-hero - a criminal dubbed “the Paymaster” - regularly outwitted his opponents, including the police, and other more dangerous villains. The play was intended as satire on the melodramas popular in the first part of the century.
The play originally opened in New York City, in the Bronx, and the production was not intended to tour, but an actor’s strike sent the show on the road and extended Bushman’s involvement with Morosco.
The Seattle writer also noted the irony of Bushman and Bayne portraying a particularly orthodox couple in the play, in light of the scandal two years prior when the duo’s affair became public before Bushman had secured a divorce.