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

* 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.

In 1926, he played his first Test match against Australia in the second Test of the series, at Lord's.

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.

He commanded the battalion at Constantinople ( a sensitive posting in the runup to the Chanak Crisis ), then Gibraltar from October 1922, then in London from April 1923 until January 1926, when he was released from that role to attend Staff College, Camberley.

" The central role of proteins as enzymes in living organisms was not fully appreciated until 1926, when James B. Sumner showed that the enzyme urease was in fact a protein.

Warren Mitchell ( born Warren Misell ; 14 January 1926 ) is an English actor who rose to initial prominence in the role of bigoted cockney Alf Garnett in the BBC television sitcom Till Death Us Do Part ( 1965 – 75 ), and its sequels Till Death ... ( ATV, 1981 ) and In Sickness and in Health ( BBC, 1985 – 92 ), all of which were written by Johnny Speight.

From 1926 when Lloyd George became leader of the Liberals, Keynes took a major role in defining the party's economics policy, but by then the Liberals had been displaced into third party status by the Labour party.

The premiere of Turandot was at La Scala, Milan, on Sunday 25 April 1926, one year and five months after Puccini's death, with Rosa Raisa in the title role.

In the fall of 1926, Tracy was offered his third shot at Broadway: a role in a new George M. Cohan play called Yellow.

Finally, in 1926, at the age of 20, she was cast in the lead role in The Johnstown Flood ( 1926 ), the same year she was selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars ( with Joan Crawford, Dolores del Río and others ).

) In the realm of song, Claude Debussy set both Verlaine's " Pantomime " and Banville's " Pierrot " ( 1842 ) to music in 1881 ( not published until 1926 )— the only precedents among works by major composers being the " Pierrot " section of Telemann's Burlesque Overture ( 1717 – 22 ), Mozart's 1783 " Masquerade " ( in which Mozart himself took the role of Harlequin and his brother-in-law, Joseph Lange, that of Pierrot ), and the " Pierrot " section of Robert Schumann's Carnival ( 1835 ).

The success led Irving Thalberg, head of production at MGM, to cast her in a similar role in The Temptress ( 1926 ), based on another Ibáñez novel.

* Pete received a darker role in Alice's Mysterious Mystery ( February 15, 1926 ).

was actually repeating the role taken in the 1926 film by his brother, Arthur Chesney.

* Richard Anderson ( born 1926 ), best known for his role as Oscar Goldman, in both The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman TV series and subsequent TV movies.

In 1926, Eagels was offered the part of Roxie Hart in Maurine Dallas Watkins's play Chicago, but Eagels walked out of this role during rehearsals.

Her notable films include Lady Hamilton ( 1921 ; her breakthrough role ); Lucrezia Borgia ( 1926 ); Die Csardasfürstin ( 1927, based on the operetta by Emmerich Kálmán ); and the talkies Das Lied ist aus ( The Song Is Ended ) ( 1930 ) and Ungeküsst soll man nicht schlafen gehn ( 1936 ).

Following this, he starred in It's The Old Army Game ( 1926 ) which featured his friend Louise Brooks, later to become a screen legend for her role in G. W. Pabst's Pandora's Box in Germany.

Kelly wrote a role especially for her in his next play, Daisy Mayme, which also was staged in 1926.

Other performances which many considered definitive were as Millamant in The Way of the World ( 1924 ), Rosalind in As You Like It ( 1926 and 1936 ), the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet ( 1932 – 35 and 1961 ), and, most notably, as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1939 ), a role with which she became identified in the public's mind ( in particular for her drippingly sarcastic delivery of the line: " A handbag ?").

Though he thereafter resigned his cabinet post, Massey was still included in the Canadian delegation to the 1926 Imperial Conference, where was drafted the Balfour Declaration that would ultimately lead to vast constitutional changes in the role of the monarch and his viceroys throughout the former empire.

The first manager of the Germany national team was Otto Nerz, a school teacher from Mannheim, who served in the role from 1926 to 1936.

The 1926 Imperial Conference in London recognised the de facto independence of the Dominions, and ended the role of the Governors-General as diplomats and as channels of communication between governments.

In 1926, he began the task of building the Italian Royal Air Force and took a leading role in popularizing aviation in Italy, and promoting Italian aviation to the world.

Her stage debut was in the Ziegfeld revue No Foolin in 1926, and played a small role in Rio Rita.