ALEXANDER (Claude A. Conlin, 1880 ? 1954). Alexander / The Man Who Knows. Circa 1920. Iconic bust portrait lithograph with an image of Alexander's turban-clad head in black-and-white on a bright red background, with text in white above and below the likeness. Minor marginal creases, wear, toning, and tears. Tear at mid-top margin. Pinholes to each corner. Hole to right section measuring roughly 5/8 x 1/8". Fold through middle. B-. Equal parts scoundrel and showman, Alexander's iconic posters tell only part of a multifaceted life story that reads like the script of a noir-era potboiler. His biographers reported that, ?As the turbaned ?Man Who Knows,' Alexander earned four million dollars over the course of a relatively short career during the 1920s. The ? story that runs concurrently with Alexander's theatrical career includes ? seven marriages (sometimes to more than one woman at once), time spent in local jails and federal prison, his trial for attempting to extort an oilman millionaire, his failed attempt to outrun the authorities in a high powered speedboat loaded with bootlegged liquor, and the four men that he admitted killing" (Charvet and Pomeroy, Alexander: The Man Who Knows, 2004). 42 ? x 28".