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He successfully brought Wishart back to port in Malta and then attended the funeral of King George V in January 1936.
Mountbatten was appointed a Personal Naval Aide-de-Camp to King George VI on 23 June 1936, and, having joined the Naval Air Division of the Admiralty in July 1936, he attended the coronation of King George VI in May 1937.
The Royal Victorian Order was opened to women in 1936, and the Order of Bath and Saint Michael and Saint George in 1965 and 1971 respectively.
However, in 1936 George VI had been declared " King of Ireland " and, under the External Relations Act of the same year, it was this king who represented the state in its foreign affairs.
The most notable theatrical releases were George Cukor's multi-Oscar-nominated 1936 production, Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version, and Baz Luhrmann's 1996 MTV-inspired Romeo + Juliet.
Shearer and Leslie Howard, with a combined age over 75, played the teenage lovers in George Cukor's MGM 1936 film version.
Unknown to Williams, he had caught the eye of the Boston Red Sox's general manager, Eddie Collins, while Collins was scouting Bobby Doerr and the shortstop George Myatt in August 1936.
Prince Albert becomes King George VI in December 1936 after the abdication of his older brother, Edward VIII.
* May 12 – George Landenberger, United States Navy Captain and the 23rd Governor of American Samoa ( d. 1936 )
The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.
They started a psychosurgery program at George Washington University in 1936, first using Moniz's method but then devised a method of their own in which the connections between the prefrontal lobes and deeper structures in the brain were severed by making a sweeping cut through a burr hole on either side of the skull.
The American neurologist and psychiatrist Walter Freeman, who had also attended the London Congress of Neurology in 1935, was intrigued by Moniz's work, and with the help of his close friend, neurosurgeon James W. Watts, he performed the first prefrontal leucotomy in the United States in 1936 at the hospital of George Washington University in Washington.
In 1936, he married Frances Ford Seymour Brokaw, widow of a wealthy industrialist, George Tuttle Brokaw.
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon ( 4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002 ) was the queen consort of King George VI from 1936 until his death in 1952, after which she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
1936 and Orwell's
Orwell's research for The Road to Wigan Pier led to him being placed under surveillance by the Special Branch in 1936, for 12 years, until one year before the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Telescreens are most prominently featured in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, although notably they have an earlier appearance in the 1936 Charlie Chaplin film Modern Times.
George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying ( 1936 ) describes a somewhat more subversive schoolboy publication:
1936 and Keep
The book also inspired a 1936 film Keep Your Seats, Please directed by Monty Banks at Ealing Studios and starring George Formby.
* George Orwell, in Keep the Aspidistra Flying ( 1936 ), gives us another example addressed to a pet dog:
Popular previous English-language versions include Keep Your Seats, Please by Ealing Studios in 1936 starring George Formby, and It's in the Bag!
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1936 and Flying
Together, from 1933 to 1939, they made nine musical films at RKO: Flying Down to Rio ( 1933 ), The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ), Roberta ( 1935 ), Top Hat ( 1935 ), Follow the Fleet ( 1936 ), Swing Time ( 1936 ), Shall We Dance ( 1937 ), Carefree ( 1938 ), and The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle ( 1939 ) ( The Barkleys of Broadway ( 1949 ) was produced later at MGM ).
Rogers also introduced some celebrated numbers from the Great American Songbook, songs such as Harry Warren and Al Dubin's " The Gold Diggers ' Song ( We're in the Money )" from Gold Diggers of 1933 ( 1933 ), " Music Makes Me " from Flying Down to Rio ( 1933 ), " The Continental " from The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ), Irving Berlin's " Let Yourself Go " from Follow the Fleet ( 1936 ), the Gershwins ' " Embraceable You " from Girl Crazy and " They All Laughed ( at Christopher Columbus )" from Shall We Dance ( 1937 ).
Wagner was known to his fans as the Flying Dutchman and was admitted to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936.
He and Eaker collaborated on three books promoting airpower: This Flying Game ( 1936, reprinted 1943 ), Winged Victory ( 1941 ), and Army Flyer ( 1942 ).
The Flying Standards came to the market in 1936 with their distinctive streamlined sloping rears virtually replacing the existing range of Nine, Twelve, Sixteen, and Twenty.
In 1936 he joined the RAF, becoming an Acting Pilot Officer with effect from and with seniority of 31 January 1937 and a Pilot Officer on 16 November 1937, learning to fly at No. 2 Flying Training School at RAF Scopwick in Lincolnshire.
In 1935 and 1936, he published articles on rocket-powered flight for the Austrian journal Flug (" Flying.
Ridley also wrote over 30 other plays including The Wrecker ( 1924 ), Keepers of Youth ( 1929 ), The Flying Fool ( 1929 ) and Recipe for Murder ( 1936 ).
Although used by the Border Flying Club as its base the new airport proved to be underused and uneconomic so the airfield was eventually sold to the Air Ministry in 1936.
This symphony, sketched immediately after the disaster and premiered in Moscow on 24 October 1936, includes a big funeral march as its slow movement, and the finale is built on Myaskovsky's own song for the Red Air Force, ' The Aeroplanes are Flying '.
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