Three of his bronzes grace the grand staircase of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City: Summer ( 1910 – 11 ), Venus Without Arms ( 1920 ), and Kneeling Woman: Monument to Debussy ( 1950 – 55 ).

Other films of the 1920s include Dr. Jekyll And Mr Hyde ( 1920 ), The Phantom Carriage ( Sweden, 1920 ), The Lost World ( 1925 ), The Phantom Of The Opera ( 1925 ), Waxworks ( Germany 1924 ), and Tod Browning's ( lost ) London After Midnight ( 1927 ) with Chaney.

* Edipo Re – 13 December 1920, Chicago Opera.

When it received its first professional revival in December 1920 in Glasgow – and then in London, in October 1921 – the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company made a number of further cuts and changes that were incorporated in scores and used in subsequent D ' Oyly Carte productions and recordings.

He made his final recordings in September 1920, only three months before his final appearances at the Metropolitan Opera.

Gigli made many important debuts in quick succession, and always in Mefistofele: Teatro Massimo in Palermo ( March 31, 1915 ), Teatro di San Carlo in Naples ( December 26, 1915 ), Teatro Costanzi di Roma ( December 26, 1916 ), La Scala, Milan ( November 19, 1918 ), and finally the Metropolitan Opera, New York ( November 26, 1920 ).

The company renamed the house the Metropolitan Opera House and performed all of their Philadelphia performances there until 1920, when the company resumed performing at the Academy of Music.

Renamed the Metropolitan Opera House, the theater was operated by the Met from 1910 until it sold the house in April 1920.

During the 19th century, other instrumentalists and singers won international recognition, for example, the violinist Franjo Krežma ( 1862 – 1881 ), singers, among which Ilma Murska ( 1834 – 1889 ), Matilda Mallinger ( 1847 – 1920 ) who sang at the opening night of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in 1868, Milka Trnina ( 1863 – 1941 ) and Josip Kašman ( 1850 – 1925 ), the first Croatian singer to appear at the New York Metropolitan Opera.

In 1920, with the replacement of the Habsburg Monarchy by the First Republic of Austria, it was renamed the Vienna State Opera.

* Gaston Leroux with La Double Vie de Theophraste Longuet Double Life Of Theophraste Longuet ( 1903 ), in which a retired merchant is possessed by the spirit of 18th century French highwayman Cartouche, the Hoffmannesque L ' Homme qui a Vu le Diable Man Who Saw The Devil ( 1908 ), the classic Le Fantôme de l ' Opéra aka The Phantom of the Opera ( 1910 ) and Le Coeur Cambriolé Burglared Heart ( 1920 ).

In 1920, Wigman was offered the post of ballet mistress at the Dresden Opera House, but conflict cut this short.

The United States premiere was given on 24 March 1920 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

The ballet premiered at the Paris Opera on 15 May 1920 under the baton of Ernest Ansermet.

But since then its existence has not been discontinuous ; having survived the burning of much of Cork by British forces in reprisal for an ambush of a military convoy in 1920 by Irish rebels, the Opera House nevertheless was burned down in its centenary year by a combination of old wiring and wooden materials.

The Capitol Theatre, located just off O ' Connell Street, Dublin, began life on 10 August 1920 as the La Scala Theatre and Opera House.

It was first presented in Budapest on 19 April 1919 ( in Hungarian in a translation by Z. Harsányi ), and in German in Graz on 12 March 1920, Amsterdam in January 1924, and London at the Royal Opera House on 27 May 1924 with Lotte Lehmann as Ariadne, Maria Ivogün as Zerbinetta ( in her debut with the company ), Elisabeth Schumann as the Composer, Karl Fischer-Niemann as Bacchus, and Carl Alwin conducting.

After the incorporation of Charlottenburg by the 1920 Greater Berlin Act, the name of the resident building was changed to Städtische Oper ( Municipal Opera ) in 1925.

He returned to Lwów where he was engaged as chorus master at the Opera House, making his debut as a conductor in 1920 with Verdi's Ernani.

Puccini also intended that the three should be performed as a set, and wrote to Casa Ricordi to complain about their giving permission in 1920 to the Royal Opera, London " for Tabarro and Schicchi without Angelica ".

* 1920 – Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends.

Following a Royal Commission report in 1906, work began on a new prayer book, work that was to take twenty years due in part to the demands of the Great War ( 1914 – 18 ) and in part to the constitution of the Church Assembly in 1920 which " perhaps not unnaturally wished to do the work all over again for itself.

Even after the creation of the Church in Wales 1920, the 1662 book ( and its Welsh equivalent ) was used until 1966, when trials of new services began.

Capoeira Regional began to take form in the 1920 decade, when Mestre Bimba met his future student, José Cisnando Lima.

( Jitsuyo Jidosha began producing a three-wheeled vehicle with an enclosed cab called the Gorham in 1920, and the following year produced a four-wheeled version.

However, by 1920 all Western European and North American democracies had universal male suffrage ( except Switzerland ) and many countries began to consider women's suffrage.

Arthur N. Young of the Department of State was selected for this task and began work in Honduras in August 1920, continuing to August 1921.

His bestselling three-volume work, The Outline of History ( 1920 ), began a new era of popularised world history.

From 1920 leaders such as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi began highly popular mass movements to campaign against the British Raj using largely peaceful methods.

In 1920 his secondary education began at Saint-Boniface School, an institution controlled by the archbishop where the teachers were Roman Catholic priests.

Mazda began as the Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd, founded in Japan in 1920.

Gandhi took leadership of Congress in 1920 and began a steady escalation of demands ( with Intermittent compromises or pauses ) until on 26 January 1930 the Indian National Congress declared the independence of India.

Between 1918 and 1920, NNS delivered 25 destroyers, and after the war, NNS began building aircraft carriers.

In 1920 he met George Grosz and, influenced by Dada, began incorporating collage elements into his works, some of which he exhibited in the first Dada Fair in Berlin.

Looney's Shakespeare Identified ( 1920 ) began the modern Oxfordian movement and made Oxford the most widely accepted anti-Stratfordian candidate.

In 1920 Eisenstein moved to Moscow, and began his career in theatre working for Proletkult.

Samuel Eliot Morison wrote that had Marshall carried out his constitutional duties, assumed the presidency, and made the concessions necessary for the passage of the League of Nations treaty in late 1920, the United States would have been much more involved in European affairs and could have helped prevent the rise of Adolf Hitler, which began in the following year.

In 1920, as a result of local demands, Victoria College began the second stage of its development, reborn in affiliation with the University of British Columbia.

Prohibition in the United States began January 16, 1919, with the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, effective as of January 17, 1920, and it continued throughout the 1920s.

The drive against Post began to lose energy when Attorney General Palmer ’ s forecast of an attempted radical uprising on May Day 1920 failed to occur.

The Polish logician and philosopher, Jan Łukasiewicz, began to create systems of many-valued logic in 1920, using a third value, " possible ", to deal with Aristotle's paradox of the sea battle.

Puccini first began working on Turandot in March 1920 after meeting with librettists Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni.

In March 1920 Molly MacCarthy began a club to help Desmond and herself write their memoirs ; and also " for their friends to regroup after the war ( with the proviso that they should always tell the truth )", thus bringing the members of Old Bloomsbury back together.

Kamenev's first marriage began to disintegrate starting with Kamenev's reputed affair with the British sculptress Clare Frewen Sheridan in 1920.

The Democrats began the practice of electing floor leaders in 1920 while they were in the minority.