Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other personalities of the filmmaking industry of the time for their works during the 1927 – 1928 period.

Percy Bysshe Shelley composed a " Hymn of Apollo " ( 1820 ), and the god's instruction of the Muses formed the subject of Igor Stravinsky's Apollon musagète ( 1927 – 1928 ).

* Armstrong Whitworth Atlas, a British military aeroplane manufactured ( 1927 – 1933 )

* Atlas ( 1927 – 1962 ), a LMS Royal Scot Class steam locomotive

Leipzig, 1927 – 1928

* 1927 – Gerry Mulligan, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, and arranger ( d. 1996 )

* 1927 – April 12 Incident: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Communist Party of China members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.

* 1927 – The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.

* 1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

* 1927 – Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, " Does the word ' Persons ' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?

* 1927 – Jimmy C. Newman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

* 1927 – Daniel Keyes, American author

* 1927 – Marvin Minsky, American computer scientist

* 1927 – Robert Shaw, English actor ( d. 1978 )

* 2004 – Nilo Soruco, Bolivian singer-songwriter ( b. 1927 )

* 2010 – Tzannis Tzannetakis, Greek politician, 175th Prime Minister of Greece ( b. 1927 )

* 1927 – The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China.

* 1894 – Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist ( d. 1927 )

* 1927 – Gordon Scott, American actor ( d. 2007 )

* 2012 – Martin Fleischmann, Czech-English chemist ( b. 1927 )

* 1927 – The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.

* 1927 – Edwin Edwards, American politician

* 1927 – Art Houtteman, American baseball player ( d. 2003 )

* 1927 – Carl Switzer, American actor ( d. 1959 )

* 1927 – The predecessor to the Philippine Stock Exchange opens.

* 1927 – Doc Severinsen, American composer and trumpeter ( The Tonight Show Band )

The Princess Theatre musicals and other smart shows like Of Thee I Sing ( 1931 ) were artistic steps forward beyond revues and other frothy entertainments of the early 20th century and led to such groundbreaking works as Show Boat ( 1927 ) and Oklahoma!

In 1927, Kern and Hammerstein had their biggest hit, Show Boat, which is often revived and is still considered one of the masterpieces of the American musical theatre.

* The Show ( 1927 )

* Warner Brothers produces the first movie with a soundtrack Don Juan in 1926, followed by the first Part-Talkie The Jazz Singer in 1927, the first All-Talking movie Lights of New York in 1928 and the first All-Color All-Talking movie On with the Show, 1929.

The musical Show Boat ( from 1927 until 1946 ) features the word and " nigger " as originally integral to the lyrics of " Ol ' Man River " and " Cotton Blossom "; although deleted from the cinema versions, it is included in the 1988 EMI recording of the original score.

Her novels were especially popular and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big ( 1924 ), Show Boat ( 1926 ; made into the celebrated 1927 musical ), Cimarron ( 1929 ; made into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ), and Giant ( 1952 ; made into the 1956 Hollywood movie ).

* Show Boat ( 1927 )-music by Jerome Kern, lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II, produced by Florenz Ziegfeld

There are features of operetta in Kern and Hammerstein's Show Boat ( 1927 ), among others.

He achieves his goal-one of those four hits being Show Boat ( 1927 )-but then the stock market crash of 1929 bankrupts him, forcing Billie to go back on the stage.

In fact Show Boat ended its original 1927 run in the spring of 1929 and the stock market crash did not occur until October of that year.

Grayson was next cast as Magnolia Hawks in the 1951 remake of the 1927 Hammerstein and Kern musical, Show Boat, alongside Howard Keel and Judy Garland, however, Garland dropped out of production, and the role went to Ava Gardner.

* January 6 – A somewhat revised and streamlined revival of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat opens on Broadway at the Ziegfeld Theatre, the same theatre at which the original production played back in 1927.

Their 1927 musical Show Boat is considered to be one of the masterpieces of the American musical theatre.

* She makes cameo appearances as herself in the 1927 film " It " and in the 1928 film Show People.

# Kern and Hammerstein: Show Boat ( 1927 ) ( new orchestrations 1946 and 1966 )

Her novels were Lolly Willowes ( 1926 ), Mr Fortune's Maggot ( 1927 ), The True Heart ( 1929 ), Summer Will Show ( 1936 ), After the Death of Don Juan ( 1938 ), The Corner That Held Them ( 1948 ), The Flint Anchor ( 1954 ).

Leaving these comparatively frivolous entertainments behind, and taking the drama a giant step forward, Show Boat, premiered on December 27, 1927 at the Ziegfeld Theatre, representing a complete integration of book and score, with dramatic themes, as told through the music, dialogue, setting and movement, woven together more seamlessly than in previous musicals.

This led to the odd situation of having, for example, a 1928 recording of the London cast of Show Boat, but no recording with the actual 1927 Broadway cast, and a recording of the London cast of Sigmund Romberg's The Desert Song, but not of the 1926 Broadway cast-even though both of these shows are Broadway musicals, rather than British ones.

In 1927 ( at the Brussels Motor Show ) the company announced a 1594 cc pushrod ohv six-cylinder with twin carburettors, as well as in-unit engine / gearbox construction.

The company made a final appearance at the London Motor Show in 1927 and the last cars were probably made in 1928 though still advertised until Argyll closed in 1932.

Although the Salonola was demonstrated at the 1927 Sydney Royal Easter Show, Home Recreations went into liquidation and the Salonola was never marketed.

Her best remembered film is arguably the silent classic The Cat and the Canary ( 1927 ), although she also achieved acclaim for Skinner's Dress Suit ( 1926 ), with Reginald Denny, the part-talkie The Love Trap ( 1929 ), directed by William Wyler, and the 1929 part-talkie film version of Show Boat ( 1929 ), adapted from the novel of the same name by Edna Ferber.

Mahin also wrote the screenplay for Show Boat ( 1951 ), the Technicolor remake of the famous 1927 stage musical, which had previously been filmed in 1936.