REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 155, 3 July 1934, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

"THE MYSTERY OF MR. X.” Moments tense enough to send 1 shiver down the spine of the most hardened picture-goer are provided in “The Mystery of Mr. X,” now show ing at the Regent Theatre. Seven times the various daily newspapers in London receive a postcard reading: ‘‘To-night.—X,” and each card marks the death, in some lonely street, of one of the Metropolitan Police Force, every man being stabbed with a sword-cane wielded by a homicidal maniac. Scotland lard investigates while Nick Revel (Robert Montgomery) steals the Drayton diamond, but an unhappy coincidence leads to Nick being unjustly suspected as the mysterious Mr. X. How the handsome hero gives up crime and tracks the killer to his death in a deserted warehouse, all because of the winsome daughter of the Commissioner of Police, constitutes an enthralling story which Metro-Gold wyn-Mayer have made the most of by good casting and first-class technique in sound and phtography. ‘ ‘From Headquarters. ’ ’ George Brent and Margaret Lindsay are the principals in “From Headquarters,” the picture which heads the entertaining programme to be shown at the Regent Theatre to-morrow. George Brent plays the part of a highly intelligent and efficient police officer, who has attained success by solving crimes by the most modern scientific methods. The story tells of a thrilling and mysterious double murder which is committed under the eyes of the police at headquarters. The film is notable for the unique revelation of the scientific methods in use by the police in the solution of crime. These include microscopic, detection, the utilisation of ultra violet rays and the determination of particulars of gun crimes with the aid