The Miraculous Mandarin, a modern story of prostitution, robbery, and murder, was started in 1918, but not performed until 1926 because of its sexual content.

The use of a spotlight from high at the back onto the actors to rimlight them became more frequent, and around 1918 some American cameramen started to use spotlights to light the actors from the front.

In 1918, when she was 16, she started dance and ballet classes at the Grimm-Reiter Dance School in Berlin, where she quickly became a star pupil.

The uprisings started in 1918 and continued through the Russian Civil War and after until 1922.

1918: Lady reading Health School was started in Delhi offering helath visitors course.

The Workers ' and Peasants ' Red Army (; RKKA ) started out as the Soviet Union's revolutionary communist combat groups during the Russian Civil War of 1918 – 1922.

By 1918 a Clerget handbook advised that all necessary control was to be effected using the fuel and air controls, and the engine was to be stopped and started by turning the fuel on and off.

After the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in late 1918, an armed dispute started between the Slovenes and German Austria for the regions of Lower Styria and southern Carinthia.

Arriving in San Francisco after having been released from questioning by immigration officials on Angel Island on 11 August 1918, Prokofiev was soon compared to other famous Russian exiles ( such as Sergei Rachmaninoff ), and he started out successfully with a solo concert in New York, leading to several further engagements.

He started his academic studies in 1918 at the University of Frankfurt am Main with two semesters of jurisprudence.

* Blackburn N. 1B ( 1918 )-single-engine single seat biplane flying boat escort bomber ( started ; not finished ; never flew )

A Portuguese artillery Corps was also sent to man French batteries, which they started operating by March 1918.

* 1918: One of the leading gas turbine manufacturers of today, General Electric, started their gas turbine division.

Breton said the diversion started about 1925, but Pierre Reverdy wrote that it started much earlier, at least before 1918.

In 1918, it changed its name to Kopřivnická vozovka a. s. and, in 1919, started to use the Tatra badge named after the nearby Tatra mountains in Slovakia.

By this A. G. „ Weser ” started it ´ s career as an important constructor of war ships for the Imperial German Navy ( 1871 – 1918 ) first and the Kriegsmarine in the Third Reich ( 1933 – 1945 ) later.

She was hospitalized in early November 1918 owing to pneumonia and discharged in December 1918, about two months after the illness had started.

On November 27, 1918, Chen started another magazine, the Weekly Review ( 每週評論 ) with Li Dazhao ( 李大釗 ) in order to criticize the politics of his time in a more direct way and to promote democracy, science, and modern literature.

In Arizona, Girl Scouts was started in Prescott in 1916 by Maxine Dunning though her troop was not formally recognized until 1918.

School was not started until November 25, 1918.

They had an orchestra that started in 1918.

Beginning in July 1918, several prominent Ephrata residents started the promotion of a plan to redirect waters of the Columbia River in order to irrigate the dry but fertile soils of the Big Bend country.

The events of July 1917 did not bring about the Red Revolution in January 1918 on their own, but together with political development based on the labour movement's interpretation of the ideas of fennomania and socialism since the 1880's, these events were decisive for the nature, content, and goals of a Finnish revolution.

And in December 1918, the American Federation of Labor ( AFL ) issued its own distinctively apolitical report, which called for the achievement of numerous incremental improvements via the collective bargaining process.

Between December 1916 and August 1918, a total of 37 Katzenjammer Kids silent cartoon shorts were produced by William Randolph Hearst's own cartoon studio International Film Service, which adapted well-known comic strips owned by Hearst for animation.

Menzies was admitted to the Victorian Bar and to the High Court of Australia in 1918 and soon became one of Melbourne's leading lawyers after establishing his own practice.

Overall, during the period from 1795 until reestablishment of Poland's sovereignty in 1918, little power was actually held by any Polish legislative body and the occupying powers of Russia, Prussia ( later united Germany ) and Austria-Hungary propagated legislation for their own respective formerly-Polish territories at a national level.

The Representation of the People Act 1918 led to Newport becoming a parliamentary borough in its own right, and Monmouth was included in the new Monmouth county constituency.

Those who maintained fellowship with the Watch Tower Society adopted the name Jehovah's witnesses in 1931, while those who severed ties with the Society formed their own groups including the Pastoral Bible Institute in 1918, the Laymen's Home Missionary Movement in 1919, and the Dawn Bible Students Association in 1929.

The rivalry paused when the schools ( and football teams ) were consolidated from 1915 to 1918 but was renewed in 1919 after Manual reformed and built its own stadium.

A newspaper columnist in 1916, Dupont became a screenwriter and began directing his own crime-story scripts in 1918.

Arrigo Boito (; 24 February 184210 June 1918 ), aka Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito, pseudonym Tobia Gorrio, was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist and composer, best known today for his libretti, especially those for Giuseppe Verdi's operas Otello and Falstaff, and his own opera Mefistofele.

The Liberal Party finally split openly during the Maurice Debate in 1918, at which Lloyd George was accused ( almost certainly correctly ) of hoarding manpower in the UK to prevent Haig from launching any fresh offensives ( e. g. Passchendaele, 1917 ), possibly with a view to sending more troops to Palestine or Italy instead, and thus contributing to Allied weakness during the temporarily successful German offensives of spring 1918, in which British casualties were actually heavier than in their own offensives the previous year.

As a result of the experience gained in manufacturing aircraft under licence, Westland began to design and build its own aircraft, starting with the Westland N. 1B in 1917, which was followed in 1918 by the Wagtail and the Weasel.

Plaistow had its own UK Parliamentary constituency from 1918 to 1950.

Sinn Féin, standing for ' an independent sovereign Ireland ', had won seventy-three of the one hundred and five parliamentary seats on the island in the 1918 General Election and established its own unilateral declaration of independence ( UDI ) state, the Irish Republic with its own parliament, Dáil Éireann.

In Brazil, Santos-Dumont bought a small lot on the side of a hill in the city of Petrópolis, in the mountains near Rio de Janeiro, and in 1918 built a small house there filled with imaginative mechanical gadgetry including an alcohol-fueled heated shower of his own design.

Between 1918 and 1926 Martin lived successively in Zurich, Rome and Paris: compositions of the period show him searching for an authentic musical voice of his own.

In 1918, Sweatman landed with major label Columbia Records, where he would enjoy a meteroic success with a wide variety of songs under his own name.

In 1912 Sumner established its own gasworks and electricity was connected in 1918.

On 1 July 1918, the town of Svolvær ( population: 2, 429 ) was separated to form its own municipality.

* James Floyd Smith ( 1884 – 1956 ), who built and flew his own plane in 1912 and invented the free-type manually operated parachute for the Army in 1918.

Since 1918, Prime Ministers request dissolutions on their own initiative, and need not consult members of the Cabinet ( although, at the very least, it would be unusual for the Cabinet not to be aware of the Prime Minister's intention ).

He incorporated the Otto Heinemann Phonograph Corporation in 1916, set up his own recording studio and gramophone record pressing plant in New York City, and introduced the company's line of records for public sale in September 1918.