In 1927, King Oliver turned down a regular booking for his group as the house band at Harlem's Cotton Club ; the offer passed to Ellington.

James Wesley Ellington ( 1927 -).

James Wesley Ellington ( 1927 -); introduction by Warner A. Wick.

James Wesley Ellington ( 1927 -).

James Wesley Ellington ( 1927 -).

Nonetheless, the club also helped launch the careers of Fletcher Henderson, who led the first band to play there in the year 1923, and Ellington, whose orchestra was the house band there from December 4, 1927 to June 30, 1931.

Many years later he regained the copyright, having lost out on the royalties earned by the publisher through the many successful interpretations of that rag by artists like Louis Armstrong ( 1927 ), Bennie Moten ( 1927 ), Duke Ellington ( 1931 ), and Pee Wee Hunt ( 1948 ).

She began her stage career on Broadway in 1921 in the chorus line of the Broadway musical Shuffle Along and went on to appear in a number of similar black musical shows including Runnin ' Wild on Broadway in 1923, Chocolate Kiddies in 1925 ( European tour ) that included songs written by Duke Ellington, My Magnolia on Broadway in 1926, Tan Town Topics with songs written by Fats Waller and in Desires of 1927 American tour in 1927.

In October, 1927, Adelaide recorded her wordless vocals on " Creole Love Call ", " The Blues I Love To Sing " and " Chicago Stomp Down " with Duke Ellington and his Orchestra.

During an extremely long career ( Adelaide entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's most enduring recording artist ), Hall has performed with major artists such as Art Tatum Ethel Waters, Josephine Baker, Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Cab Calloway, Fela Sowande and Jools Holland, and has recorded as a jazz singer with Duke Ellington ( with whom she made her most famous recording, " Creole Love Call " in 1927 ) and with Fats Waller.

With these aids, and a pair of skiis substituting for wheels on the Waco, Bob Fogg made the first landing on what is now part of the Barre-Montpelier Airport on November 21, 1927.

Since 1927, fewer than a dozen men have made serious runs at Babe Ruth's record and each, in turn, has been thwarted.

* In 1927, Charles Lindbergh made the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight in an aircraft ( between New York City and Paris ).

Great progress was made in the field of aviation during the 1920s and 1930s, such as Charles Lindbergh's solo transatlantic flight in 1927, and Charles Kingsford Smith's transpacific flight the following year.

Trotskyists argue that the party was doomed to its present character, that of petty-bourgeois nationalism in the 1920s, because of the near-annihilation of the workers ' movement in the KMT betrayal of 1927, which was made possible by Stalin's order that the Communists join with the KMT in a centrist coalition, effectively disarming it, which opportunity the KMT swiftly exploited to defeat the communist revolution.

They made three feature films together during 1926 and 1927, all of them becoming successful with the critics and the public.

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However, in May 1927, during a row over clandestine Soviet support for the General Strike and the distribution of subversive propaganda, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin made details from the decrypts public.

In 1927, the Gennett studios in Richmond, Indiana, made a recording of black fiddler Jim Booker with other instrumentalists ; their recordings were labeled " made for Hillbilly " in the Gennett files, and were marketed to a white audience.

The first was made in the company of his mother while traveling from the United States to Guam in 1927.

In February 1927 the first section, between Paddington and the West Central District Office, was made available for training.

In this period, Pickford also made Sparrows ( 1926 ), which blended the Dickensian with newly minted German expressionist style, and the romantic comedy My Best Girl ( 1927 ).

In 1927 Paramount and MGM, Hollywood's two top studios, noting the profits being made by companies like Pathé Exchange and Educational, both re-entered the production and distribution of short subjects after several years.

In early 1927, Mao returned to Hunan where, in an urgent meeting held by the Communist Party, he made a report based on his investigations of the peasant uprisings in the wake of the Northern Expedition.

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Before the release of Moana, Flaherty made two short films in New York City with private backing, The Pottery Maker ( 1925 ) and The Twenty-Four Dollar Island ( 1927 ).

The New York Times made an early reference to " Radio Row " in 1927, when Cortlandt Street celebrated a " Radio Jubilee ".

Around 1927, the virtuoso's situation brightened ; he had exciting commissions from Diaghilev and made concert tours in Russia ; in addition, he enjoyed a very successful staging of The Love for Three Oranges in Leningrad ( as Saint Petersburg was then known ).

In 1927, Philo Farnsworth made the world's first working television system with electronic scanning of both the pickup and display devices, which he first demonstrated to the press on 1 September 1928.

* Leyland Titan ( front engined double-decker ), a chassis for double-decker buses, made from 1927 to 1970

The Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act 1927 made general strikes illegal and ended the automatic payment of union members to the Labour Party.

Paul Hindemith and Vadim Borisovsky made an early attempt at an organization in 1927 with the Violists ' World Union.

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Her novels were especially popular and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big ( 1924 ), Show Boat ( 1926 ; made into the celebrated 1927 musical ), Cimarron ( 1929 ; made into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ), and Giant ( 1952 ; made into the 1956 Hollywood movie ).

On 4 April 1927, following an agreement signed between the Compañía Telefónica Nacional de España, the Spanish incumbent telecommunications operator, and the Gibraltar City Council, direct communications between Spain and Gibraltar were established.

From 1927 until 1933, General Augusto César Sandino who rejected the negotiated agreement led a sustained guerrilla war, first against the Conservative regime and subsequently against the U. S. Marines, who withdrew upon the establishment of a new Liberal government.

In February 1927, an agreement was signed by five leading Hollywood movie companies: the so-called Big Two — Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer — a pair of studios in the next rank — Universal and the fading First National — and Cecil B. DeMille's small but prestigious Producers Distributing Corporation ( PDC ).

The company discontinued recording by this process in August 1926, and did not return to electric recording until February 1927, after signing a new agreement to license the RCA Photophone recording process.

On 20 May 1927, the British government signed the Treaty of Jeddah, which abolished the Darin protection agreement and recognized the independence of the Hejaz and Najd with Ibn Saud as its ruler.

The agreement between the two rivals limited the number of home games that the Yankees were permitted to play in its namesake stadium ( four in 1927 ) and forced to be primarily a road team displaying the talents of Red Grange.

So the manufacturer decided to enter the small car market, and in 1927 agreed to a licensing agreement with the Austin Motor Company to build a variant of the Austin 7.

However, since the 1927 Cheltenham Agreement, the party has had an electoral agreement with the Labour Party, which allows for a limited number of Labour Co-operative candidates.

Labour's recovery as a credible party of government during World War II and the formal links and local affiliations brought by the 1927 agreement saw benefits electorally for the Co-operative Party.

According to an agreement of July 23 1927, the private Indian Broadcasting Company LTD ( IBC ) was authorized to operate two radio stations ; the Bombay station began on 23 July 1927, and the Calcutta station followed on 26 August 1927.

Several Canadian prime ministers, starting with William Lyon Mackenzie King in 1927, had made attempts to domesticize the amending formula, but could not obtain agreement with the provincial governments as to how such a formula would work.

By April 1927, Pennsylvania and AASHO had come to an agreement: US 111 was extended north, concurrent with US 11 and US 120 to Williamsport, where it took over former US 220 to New York.

At the Sixteenth Annual Congress of FIFA on June 4, 1927, the USFA and the other national associations came to an agreement regarding player transfers which defused the situation.

Latterly on 17 December 1927 in New York the financial agreement to build was signed between Teófilo Lacroze, the president of Banco de la Nación Dr. Tomás de Estrada, Dr. Louis J. Rocca directory owner of Ferrocarril Terminal de Buenos Aires and bankers Harris and Forbes.

It failed, but in practice the agreement determined Commonwealth-State financial arrangements until 1927.

In the year 1924 and 1927, with the help of some influential men, the Spaniards were able to get the signatures of the land owners of San Rafael and San Ildefonso to an agreement purporting to show their willingness to donate their lands to the Hospital of San Juan de Dios.

On February 19, 1927, WARF completed its first licensing agreement with the Quaker Oats company.

The Labour and the Constitutional Parties formed an electoral agreement ( known as the " Compact ") for the 1927 elections.

Following an agreement by the Nationalist and Country parties not to stand candidates against each other, the coalition won the 1927 election and Bavin became Premier and Treasurer on 18 October 1927.