Her success in this play led to her appearance in some of the Aldwych farces by Ben Travers in the 1920s and 30s, including Marguerite in A Cuckoo in the Nest ( 1925 ), as well as in other comic roles, such as Mrs. Pepys in J. B. Fagan's And So to Bed ( 1926 ) and the title Role in Fagan's The Improper Duchess ( 1931 ).

* 2003 – Ronald Ferguson, British mayor and polo manager, father of Sarah, Duchess of York ( b. 1931 )

******** HRH The Princess Louise, Princess Royal, Duchess of Fife ( 1867 – 1931 )

In 1931 the Duchess of York opened the new building.

Major Ronald Ivor Ferguson ( 10 October 1931 – 16 March 2003 ) was the father of Sarah, Duchess of York, former wife to The Duke of York.

The Princess Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife ( Louise Victoria Alexandra Dagmar ; 20 February 1867 – 4 January 1931 ) was the third child and the eldest daughter of King Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark.

# 1931: HRH The Duchess of York

She then returned to the West End ( briefly returning to the Old Vic to play Emilia in their 1938 Othello ), notably playing Edith Gunter in Dodie Smith's Autumn Crocus ( Lyric, 1931 ), the Countess of Rousillon in All's Well That Ends Well ( Arts, 1932 ), Lady Strawholme in Ivor Novello's Fresh Fields ( Criterion, 1933 ), Liz Frobisher in John Van Druten's The Distaff Side ( Apollo, 1933 ), Barbara Dawe in Clemence Dane's Moonlight is Silver ( Queen's, 1934 ), Theodora in Elmer Rice's Not for Children ( Fortune, 1935 ), Masha in Chekhov's The Seagull ( New Theatre, 1936 ), the Mother in an English-language version of Garcia Lorca's Bodas de sangre entitled Marriage of Blood ( Savoy, 1939 ), Léonie in Jean Cocteau's Les Parents terribles ( Gate, 1940 ), Mrs Cheveley in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband ( Westminster, 1943 ), and Cornelia in John Webster's The White Devil ( Duchess, 1947 ).

* Princess Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife, 1867 – 1931, the third child and the eldest daughter of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom and Queen Alexandra

* Marie, Grand Duchess of Russia, Education of a Princess, Viking Press, 1931 ; ISBN 1-4179-3316-X

He married firstly in Paris on 8 April 1931 Doña María Cristina de Borbón y Bosch-Labrús ( Madrid, 15 May 1913-28 July 2002 ), 3rd Duchess of Dúrcal, a relative of Spanish monarch Alfonso XIII.

In 1931, King George V granted Royal Lodge to the Duke and Duchess of York ( later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth ) as a country retreat.

The hall was renovated and modernised between 1928 and 1931, and the Duke and Duchess of York ( later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth ) often stayed there as guests of Lady Doris Vyner, wife of the Marquis of Ripon and sister to the then-current Duke of Richmond and Gordon.

In 1931, whilst he was in command of the Duchess of York, his wife suddenly died in Toxteth.

Campbell studied the records of 172 school board members in twelve western cities over the period of 1931 - 40 and found `` little or no relationship between certain social and economic factors and school board competence '', as judged by a panel of professional educators who studied the voting records on educational issues.

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.

His own ideas, especially those expressed in his masterworks, French Rural History ( Les caractères originaux de l ' histoire rurale française, 1931 ) and Feudal Society, were incorporated by the second-generation Annalistes, led by Fernand Braudel.

He was canonized and proclaimed a Doctor of the Church on December 16, 1931 by Pope Pius XI and patron saint of the sciences.

Initially led by Canovas del Castillo as moderate prime minister, what was thought at one time as a coup aimed at placing the military in the political-administrative positions of power, in reality ushered in a permanent civilian regime tat lasted until the 1931 Second Republic.

Since the implementation of the Statute of Westminster 1931 in each of the Commonwealth realms ( on successive dates from 1931 onwards ), the Act of Settlement cannot be altered in any realm except by that realm's own parliament and, by convention, only with the consent of all the other realms, as it touches on the succession to the shared throne.

However, legislating for alterations to the Act is a complex process, since the act is a common denominator in the shared succession of all the Commonwealth realms and the Statute of Westminster 1931 acknowledges by established convention that any changes to the rules of succession may be made only with the agreement of all of the states involved, with concurrent amendments to be made by each state's parliament or parliaments.

Following the Leipzig premiere, the opera was presented in Berlin in December 1931 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm conducted by Alexander von Zemlinsky with Lotte Lenya as Jenny, Trude Hesterberg as Begbick, and Harald Paulsen as Jimmy.

Organized sports competition on Sundays was illegal in Pennsylvania until 1931, when challenged by the Philadelphia A's, the laws were changed permitting only baseball to be played on Sundays.

Since 1931, it has been awarded by the Baseball Writers Association of America ( BBWAA ).

A bocce player of note is Umberto Granaglia ( May 20, 1931 – December 13, 2008 ), who was awarded the honor of " Player of the Twentieth Century " by the Confédération Mondiale des Sports de Boules.

The English Biblical scholar Robert Henry Charles ( 1855 – 1931 ) reasoned on internal textual grounds that the book was edited by someone who spoke no Hebrew and who wished to promote a different theology from John's.

In 1931 MacDonald's government fell apart under the Great Depression, and the Liberals agreed to join his National Government, dominated by the Conservatives.

The conclusions of the imperial premiers conference of 1926 were restated by the 1930 conference and incorporated in the Statute of Westminster of December 1931, by which the British parliament renounced any legislative authority over dominion affairs, except as specifically provided in law.

With the advent of sound technology, Chaplin immediately adopted the use of a synchronised soundtrack — composed by himself — for City Lights ( 1931 ).

The Fetha Negest remained the supreme law in Ethiopia until 1931, when a modern-style Constitution was first granted by Emperor Haile Selassie I.

The atoll has been occupied at various times by guano miners, would-be settlers or military personnel, mostly from Mexico, which formerly claimed it until international arbitration awarded it to France in 1931.

The publication of the first six volumes of the Collected Papers ( 1931 – 35 ), the most important event to date in Peirce studies and one that Cohen made possible by raising the needed funds, did not prompt an outpouring of secondary studies.

* 1991 – James Cleveland, American gospel singer ( b. 1931 )

Tod Browning's Dracula ( 1931 ), with Bela Lugosi, was quickly followed by James Whale's Frankenstein ( also 1931 ).

* 1931 – James Earl Jones, American actor

* 1852 – James Milton Carroll, American pastor and author ( d. 1931 )

On the spot where the plane crashed, a memorial dedicated to the victims stands surrounded by a wire fence with wooden posts ; it was maintained for many years by James Easter Heathman, who, at age thirteen in 1931, was one of the first people to arrive at the site of the tragedy.

Following the death of the club's principal benefactor,, in October 1927, the club's finances deteriorated to the extent that Manchester United would likely have gone bankrupt had it not been for James W. Gibson, who, in December 1931, invested £ 2, 000 and assumed control of the club.

Other philosophers who embraced panentheism have included Thomas Hill Green ( 1839 – 1882 ), James Ward ( 1843 – 1925 ), Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison ( 1856 – 1931 ) and Samuel Alexander ( 1859 – 1938 ).

* The Phantom ( 1931 film ), an American film directed by Alan James

Other books on Le Fanu include Wilkie Collins, Le Fanu and Others ( 1931 ) by S. M. Ellis, Sheridan Le Fanu ( 1951 ) by Nelson Browne, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu ( 1971 ) by Michael H. Begnal, Sheridan Le Fanu ( third edition, 1997 ) by W. J. McCormack, Le Fanu's Gothic: The Rhetoric of Darkness ( 2004 ) by Victor Sage and Vision and Vacancy: The Fictions of J. S. Le Fanu ( 2007 ) by James Walton.

** James Dean, American actor ( b. 1931 ) September 30 | Sept. 30: James Dean.

* January 8 – James Milton Carroll, Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author ( d. 1931 )

In his 1931 book The Mysterious Universe, Eddington's rival James Jeans attributed the monkey parable to a " Huxley ", presumably meaning Thomas Henry Huxley.

He was Labor Premier of Tasmania from 1923 to 1928 and a Minister in the James Scullin government from 1929 until his resignation from the Labor Party in March 1931.

* James D. Murray ( born 1931 ), mathematics professor

James Stedman-Henderson's Sweets Ltd released Jaffas onto the Australian and New Zealand markets in 1931.

* Brooke, Rupert, Letters From America with a Preface by Henry James ( London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd, 1931 ; repr.

The Public Enemy ( released as Enemies of the Public in the United Kingdom ) is a 1931 American Pre-Code crime film starring James Cagney and directed by William A. Wellman.

James Paul David " Jim " Bunning ( born October 23, 1931 ) is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher and politician.

* 1931: Charles W. Eliot by Henry James

Actor Sir Ian Holm was born at Goodmayes Hospital on 12 September, 1931, to Scottish parents, Jean Wilson Holm and James Harvey Cuthbert.

Edmund Wilson's 1931 study Axel's Castle focuses on the continuity with symbolism and several important writers of the early twentieth century, with a particular emphasis on Yeats, Eliot, Paul Valéry, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein.

Westfield is the purported home town of the central character, Jack Smurch, in James Thurber's 1931 short story " The Greatest Man in the World.

* James B. Potter, Jr. ( born 1931 ), Los Angeles City Council member, 1963 – 71