Word: x
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dollar diamond, they feel certain they will have the maniac swordsman who stuck the policeman from behind the hedge, who had killed four other police in almost as many nights, who had kept the newspapers in an orgy of headlines by his postcard warnings which preceded each crime: "TONIGHT. X...
Innocent of violent crime, the cracksman (Robert Montgomery) finds himself embarrassed by the possession of the pilfered jewel, refuses the entreaties of his accomplices to chuck it in the Thames instead he rescues the finance of Scotland Yard's commissioner's daughter from the charge of being Mr. X, falls in love with the daughter, attracts the attention and suspicion of the sleuths...
Betrayed by a henchman, the suave cracksman is beset by the police who search for X. How can he protect himself? He must find X, he cannily reasons. Moreover, if he finds X, he will be in a most strategic position to give up his evil ways and claim the boon of love which he had already won from the Commissioner's daughter...
Loew's Orpheum--"The Mystery of Mr. X." Robert Montgomery carries off the part of gentleman crook with his customary aplomb and ability to provide a diverting evening...
...Smyrna, Fla. on the shiny black surface of Indian River, a dozen tiny boats, responsive as walnut-shells, noisy as airplanes, wheeled, bounced and scudded around a ten-mile boomerang-shaped course. They were Class-X outboard motorboats, competing in the first international outboard races ever held...