Biltmore Theatre, 47th Street, West of Broadway, Chanin Theatres Corp., owners, operated by Irwin S. Chanin and Henry I. Chanina, Harry D. Kline, managing director, Elbert Severance, general press representative, Kenneth MacGowan and Joseph Verner Reed present Basil Sydney and Mary Ellis in "Children of Darkness," a play in the picaresque manner by Edwin Justus Mayer, staged under the direction of the author, setting and costumes by Robert Edmond Jones.