Hi-hats that were raised and could be played by hand as well as foot may have been developed around 1926 by Barney Walberg of the drum accessory company Walberg and Auge.

After this, thousands of Vitaphone shorts ( 1926 – 30 ) were made, many featuring bands, vocalists and dancers, in which a musical soundtrack played while the actors portrayed their characters just as they did in silent films: without dialogue.

Borge played his first major concert in 1926 at the Danish concert-hall Odd Fellow Palæet ( The Odd Fellow's Lodge building ).

On stage, he played the title character in the first London production of Liliom ( 1926 ).

Other films in which Novello starred included Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger ( 1926 ), where he played the sinister title character, and Downhill ( 1927 ).

* British — Burnaby, Davy: The Co-Optimists ( revue of 1921 — and revised continually up to 1926 — played in Pierrot costumes, with music and lyrics by various entertainers ; filmed in 1929 ); Cannan, Gilbert: Pierrot in Hospital ( 1923 ); " Cryptos " and James T. Tanner: Our Miss Gibbs ( 1909 ; musical comedy played in Pierrot costumes ); Down, Oliphant: The Maker of Dreams ( 1912 ); Drinkwater, John: The Only Legend: A Masque of the Scarlet Pierrot ( 1913 ; music by James Brier ); Housman, Laurence, and Harley Granville-Barker: Prunella: or, Love in a Dutch Garden ( 1906, rev.

* The Hammond Pros from Hammond, Indiana, a team which played in the National Football League from 1920 to 1926

In 1926, he played the role of the criminal Ficsur in the original London production of Ferenc Molnár's Liliom ( The play was musicalized in 1945 by Rodgers and Hammerstein as Carousel, where Ficsur became Jigger Craigin, but Laughton never appeared in the musical version ).

* Biddy Anderson ( John Henry Anderson, 1874 – 1926 ), South African cricketer who played a single Test Match

An extension of METRO light rail service is planned to serve the city, opening in 2026, reprising a role played by the Phoenix Street Railway between 1911 and 1926.

* Barney Schultz ( born 1926 ), former pitcher in the Major Leagues from 1955 – 1965, who played for the St. Louis Cardinals, Detroit Tigers, and Chicago Cubs.

* Don Newcombe ( born 1926 ), former Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher who played for the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers ( 1949 – 51 and 1954 – 58 ), Cincinnati Reds ( 1958 – 60 ) and Cleveland Indians ( 1960 ).

Oakride was a station on Southern Pacific's Cascade subdivision, a line that goes over the Cascades Mountains and over the Cascade Summit via the Natron Cutoff that was built in 1926, the railroad played an integral part of the economy and lifestyle in Oakridge, and today the Union Pacific Railroad operates the rails, and trains are still a common sight in Oakridge.

The location of U. S. Route 10 ( now State Route 10 ) north of Thorp in 1926, and the eventual opening of Interstate 90 in 1968, all played vital roles in the changing population and economic conditions that shaped the small community.

Wallace Beery's notable silent films include Arthur Conan Doyle's dinosaur epic The Lost World ( 1925 ; as Professor Challenger ), Robin Hood with Douglas Fairbanks ( Beery played King Richard the Lionheart in this film and a sequel the following year called Richard the Lion-Hearted ), Last of the Mohicans ( 1920 ), The Round-Up ( 1920 ; with Roscoe Arbuckle ), Old Ironsides ( 1926 ), Now We're in the Air ( 1927 ), The Usual Way ( 1913 ), Casey at the Bat ( 1927 ), and Beggars of Life ( 1928 ) with Louise Brooks.

On October 27, 2005, the team announced the Stingers would henceforth be known as the Salt Lake Bees, the name of the original PCL franchise which played in Salt Lake City from 1915 to 1926.

She attended St Paul's Girls ' School in London from 1919 until 1926, and played in the school's orchestra under Gustav Holst.

Richardson made his London début in July 1926 as the stranger in Oedipus at Colonus at a small theatre, followed by his West End début as Arthur Varwell in Yellow Sands which ran for 610 performances and from then to 1929 played in supporting roles in London productions.

Before 1926, the four rounds were played in two days.

On 11 July 1926 the track played host to the first international German Grand Prix for sports cars, organised by the Automobilclub von Deutschland, the former KAC.

The Akron Pros were a professional football team located played in Akron, Ohio from 1908 – 1926.

This new team played for the next four seasons before disbanding due to declining financial support and the team ’ s poor record after the 1926 season.

They played in the Ohio League from 1903 to 1906 and 1911 to 1919, and its successor, the National Football League, from 1920 to 1923 and again from 1925 to 1926.

The first royalty whom Mama ever waited on in the White House was Queen Marie of Rumania, who came to a State dinner given in her honor on October 21, 1926.

Gershwin based An American in Paris on a melodic fragment called " Very Parisienne ", written in 1926 on his first visit to Paris as a gift to his hosts, Robert and Mabel Schirmer.

Her first appearance was in a short story published in The Sketch magazine in 1926, " The Tuesday Night Club ", which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems ( 1932 ).

* 1926 – Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight ( Varney is the root company of United Airlines ).

* 1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

In 1926, the Aga Khan gave a cup ( the Aga Khan Trophy ) to be awarded to the winners of an international team show jumping competition held at the annual horse show of the Royal Dublin Society in Dublin, Ireland every first week in August.

During this period he also completed his first public buildings, the Jyväskylä Workers ' Club in 1925, the Jyväskylä Defence Corps building in 1926 and the Seinajoki Defence Corp building in 1924-29.

* 1926 – Rawya Ateya, Egyptian politician and first female parliamentarian in the Arab world ( d. 1997 )

The new central bank first issued bank-notes during 1926.

Unlike many artists who were " discovered " and recorded in their normal venues, in December 1925 or January 1926, he was taken to Chicago, Illinois, to record his first tracks.

The Balfour Declaration of 1926, a report resulting from the 1926 Imperial Conference of British Empire leaders in London, was named after the British statesman Arthur Balfour, first Earl of Balfour, Lord President of the Council and a previous Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Since these first accounts, Bulgarian authorities had organized several population censuses: 1892, 1900, 1905, 1910, 1920, 1926, 1934, 1946, 1956, 1965, 1975, 1985, 1992, 2001 and 2011.

* An escaped convict from Dartmoor figures in Nevil Shute's first novel Marazan, published in 1926.

It was popularized by German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin ( 1856 – 1926 ) in 1893, 1896 and 1899 in his first detailed textbook descriptions of a condition that would eventually be reframed into a substantially different disease concept and relabeled as schizophrenia.

The first electromagnetic lens was developed in 1926 by Hans Busch.

He was regarded as having a sound tactical knowledge of the game and being an inspirational leader, as he led the side into the finals in 1940 for the first time since 1926, when the side finished 3rd.

When Hugo Gernsback published the first scientifiction magazine, Amazing Stories in 1926, he allowed for a large letter column which printed reader's addresses.

Fulham became the first British team to sell hot dogs at their ground in 1926.

Ackerman saw his first " imagi-movie " in 1922 ( One Glorious Day ), purchased his first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, in 1926, created The Boys ' Scientifiction Club in 1930 (" girl-fans were as rare as unicorn's horns in those days ").

Guido Brignone ’ s Maciste all ’ Inferno ( 1926 ), the first film he saw, would mark him in ways linked to Dante and the cinema throughout his entire career.

* 1926: John Logie Baird gives the world's first demonstration of a working television system.

He also worked on the scripts for Honesty-The Best Policy in 1926 and Joseph von Sternberg's Underworld in 1927, famous for being one of the first gangster film.