His many plays included Nobody's Widow ( 1910 ), starring Blanche Bates ; Fair and Warmer ( 1915 ), starring Madge Kennedy ( filmed in 1919 ); The Gold Diggers ( 1919 ), starring Ina Claire ( filmed in 1923 as The Gold Diggers, in 1928 as Gold Diggers of Broadway and also as Gold Diggers of 1933 ); Ladies ' Night, 1920, starring Charlie Ruggles ( filmed in 1928 ); the famous mystery play The Bat ( with Mary Roberts Rinehart ), 1920 ( filmed in 1926, 1930 and 1959 ); Getting Gertie's Garter ( with Wilson Collison ), 1921, starring Hazel Dawn ( filmed in 1927 and 1945 ); The Demi-Virgin, 1921, also starring Hazel Dawn ; The Alarm Clock, 1923 ; The Best People ( with David Gray ), 1924 ( filmed in 1925 and as Fast and Loose in 1930 ), the song-farce Naughty Cinderella, 1925, starring Irene Bordoni and The Garden of Eden in 1927 ( filmed in as 1928 ).

* Mary Cassatt ( American-born, she lived in Paris and participated in four Impressionist exhibitions ) ( 1844 – 1926 )

* Mary ( novel ), a 1926 debut novel by Vladimir Nabokov

Mary Stevenson Cassatt (; May 22, 1844June 14, 1926 ) was an American painter and printmaker.

* May 22 – Mary Cassatt, American artist ( d. 1926 )

* The silent film Sparrows ( 1926 ) with Mary Pickford was set in a baby farm in the southern swamps.

An original design for the society called The Darling of the World Has Come was purchased by Queen Mary for ₤ 5. 5. 0 in 1926.

* Edward Francis Reginald Woolley 1926 – 30 ( later organist of Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent )

Hammett and Dolan were married, and they had two daughters, Mary Jane ( born 15 October 1921 ) and Josephine ( born in 1926 ).

Mary Davenport Engberg was never the director of the Seattle Symphony, and the Seattle Symphony was not revived until 1926 under the direction of Karl Krueger.

Josephson was well known for his early silent movie adaptions of theatrical works such as Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan ( 1925 ) and Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood's The Bat ( 1926 ).

* Duncan Grant is referenced with Isadora Duncan and Mary Garden in A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle ( 1926 ) by Hugh MacDiarmid ( lines 30-32 ).

* Parry, His Honour Judge Edward Abbott, Vagabond's All ( New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926 ), p. 22-42, " Chapter II: Mary Anne Clarke, The Courtesan.

A late Art Nouveau-Gothic memorial fountain by Alfred Gilbert ( 1926 – 32 ) in the Marlborough Road wall of the house commemorates Queen Alexandra, and the grounds of the house include her pet cemetery and a thatch-roofed rotating summer house built for Queen Mary.

He married Mary Ellen Edgerton on September 8, 1926 at Aurora, Nebraska.

* 1926 in art-Death of Mary Cassatt, Claude Monet

In November, 1926, Rockefeller came to the College of William and Mary for the dedication of an auditorium built in memory of the organizers of Phi Beta Kappa, the honorary scholastic fraternity founded in Williamsburg in 1776.

Robert Todd Lincoln ( August 1, 1843 – July 26, 1926 ) was an American lawyer and Secretary of War, and the first son of President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln.

Janet Mary Baker Young, Baroness Young PC ( 23 October 1926 – 6 September 2002 ), was a British Conservative politician.

Born Janet Mary Baker in 1926, she went to the mainly boys Dragon School in Oxford where she played rugby and cricket, and then to Headington School.

* Mary Stuart ( actress ) ( 1926 – 2002 ), American actress, best known for her 35-year role in the soap opera Search for Tomorrow

* The Blue Eagle ( 1926 ) as Mrs. Mary Rohan

In 1926, under the leadership of Mother Mary Genevieve, the convent founded a day and boarding high school for girls — the Sacred Heart Academy.

In 1926 he made Sparrows, the story of orphans imprisoned in a swamp farm starring Mary Pickford.

In 1926, Rabearivelo married Mary Razafitrimo, an African photographer's daughter, together they had five children.

The first Astor Bridge was built in 1926 ; by 1928, Astor's hotel had burned down and the railroad was abandoned, leaving Astor without telephone or telegraph service for the next few decades.

After the Gaiety burnt down around 1926, other cinemas followed, such as the Metro on Middle Street in Georgetown, which became the Empire ; the London on Camp Street, which became the Plaza ; and the Astor on Church and Waterloo Streets, which opened around 1940.

* Astor Radio Corporation, an Australian consumer electronics manufacturer from 1926 onwards, which also owned the Astor Records label

## Caroline Schermerhorn Astor ( 1861 – 1948 ), married 1884 Marshall Orme Wilson ( 1861 – 1926 ) ( 2 sons )

#### Winthrop Astor Chanler ( 1863 – 1926 )

The tower was built in 1926 with financing by the Great Northern Railway and Vincent Astor, the great-grandson of John Jacob Astor, in commemoration of the city's role in the family's business history.

Taylor is possibly best recalled for her roles in the 1922 drama Monte Cristo, opposite John Gilbert ; the enormously successful 1923 Cecil B. DeMille directed The Ten Commandments as Miriam, the sister of Moses ; as Lucrezia Borgia in the 1926 Warner Bros .' first feature-length film with synchronized Vitaphone sound effects and musical soundtrack Don Juan, with John Barrymore, Mary Astor and Warner Oland ; 1927's New York, featuring Ricardo Cortez and Lois Wilson ; 1931's Street Scene with Sylvia Sidney ; the Academy Award-winning Cimarron ; and the Clara Bow talkie Call Her Savage in 1932.

The production is notable for several reasons ; besides starring Frank Morgan, the play's female lead was Helen Menken ( who would marry Humphrey Bogart in 1926 ), and in his first Broadway outing, character actor Robert Keith, father of actor Brian Keith and one-time husband of Theater Guild actress Peg Entwistle, who committed suicide by jumping from the Hollywood Sign in 1932.

Only four players in major league history have reached 50 or more doubles in a season at least three times: Tris Speaker ( 1912, 1920-21, 1923, 1926 ), Paul Waner ( 1928, 1932, 1936 ), Stan Musial ( 1944, 1946, 1953 ), and Brian Roberts ( 2004, 2008-09 ).

She was named one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1926, along with Mary Brian, Dolores Costello, Joan Crawford, Dolores del Río, Janet Gaynor, and Fay Wray.

Haines scored his first big personal success with Brown of Harvard ( 1926 ) opposite Jack Pickford and Mary Brian.

* 2 November – Brian Behan, writer and trade unionist ( born 1926 ).

* Brian Christen ( born 1926 ), Canadian cricketer

Dylath-Leen is a fictional city in H. P. Lovecraft's Dream Cycle and appears in The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath ( 1926 ) and the Brian Lumley short story Dylath-Leen.

Dr. Elisha Brooks Joyce ( 1857 – 1926 ), the rector.

By 1926 Joyce had largely completed both Books I and III.

" In the same year Joyce met Maria and Eugene Jolas in Paris, just as his new work was generating an increasingly negative reaction from readers and critics, culminating in The Dials refusal to publish the four chapters of Book III in September 1926.

Joyce himself tacitly acknowledged this radically different approach to language and plot in a 1926 letter to Harriet Weaver, outlining his intentions for the book: " One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.

Franz Kafka ( 1883-1924 ): " The Metamorphosis " ( 1915 ), The Trial ( 1925 ), The Castle ( 1926 ); Rainer Maria Rilke ( 1875-1926 ): The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge ( 1910 ); Alfred Döblin ( 1857-1957 ): Berlin Alexanderplatz ( 1929 ); Wyndham Lewis ( 1882-1957 ); Djuna Barnes ( 1892-1982 ): Nightwood ( 1936 ); Malcolm Lowry ( 1909-57 ): Under the Volcano ( 1947 ); Ernest Hemingway ; William Faulkner ; James Hanley ( 1897-1985 ); James Joyce ( 1882-1941 ): " The Nighttown " section of Ulysses ( 1922 ); Patrick White ( 1912-90 ); D. H. Lawrence ; Sheila Watson: Double Hook ; Elias Canetti: Auto de Fe ; Thomas Pynchon.

Actress Alice Joyce, 1926

Joyce in 1926 and 1927, establishing the mid to late Classic period chronology of the site.

In 1926, while employed by the Field Museum, Thompson, under the supervision of Thomas A. Joyce and the British Museum, partook on an expedition to Lubaantun in British Honduras.

Hanley's first publication, the novel Drift ( 1930 ), was written, in part at least, in County Cork, Ireland in 1926, under the influence of James Joyce, as a quotation blurb on the cover of the cheap edition of 1932 underlines: " The portraits of Joe Rourke and his mother are, indeed, two of the most profound expressions of the Catholic soul I have yet seen ; truer and finer, in my opinion, than anything in Joyce ’ s A Portrait of an Artist or the vicious caricatures of Liam O ’ Flaherty ".

* Dancing Mothers ( 1926 ) with Alice Joyce, Conway Tearle and Clara Bow

Their 1886 Broadway play became the basis for the 1926 film Sunshine of Paradise Alley, as was the case with their 1903 Broadway production of Our New Minister, which became the basis for the script for the 1913 Kalem Company film starring Alice Joyce and Tom Moore.