He is chiefly remembered today for his Lithuanian stories, for his autobiography, and for the 1927 silent films Sunrise, based on his short story Die Reise nach Tilsit (" Trip to Tilset "), from the Collection Litauische Geschichten ( Lithuanian Stories ), and Flesh and the Devil, starring Greta Garbo, based on his play The Undying Past.

Some of his most famous films concern the plight of women in German society, including The Joyless Street ( 1925 ) with Greta Garbo and Asta Nielsen, Geheimnisse einer Seele ( 1926 ) with Lili Damita, The Loves of Jeanne Ney ( 1927 ) with Brigitte Helm, Pandora's Box ( 1928 ), and Diary of a Lost Girl ( 1929 ), the last two starring American actress Louise Brooks.

. Garbo moved to the US in 1925 and as Pollak married in 1927 and later had children, although they did maintain contact for over 60 years.

Goulding is best remembered for directing cultured dramas and such as Love ( 1927 ), Grand Hotel ( 1932 ) with Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford, Dark Victory ( 1939 ) with Bette Davis, and The Razor's Edge ( 1946 ) with Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power.

And in the dark days after the Great Flood of 1927 -- the worst natural disaster in the state's history -- the little plane was its sole replacement in carrying the United States mails.

Rain of near cloudburst proportions had fallen for three full days and it was still raining on the morning of Friday, November 4, 1927, when officials of the Post Office Department's Railway Mail Service realized that their distribution system for Vermont had been almost totally destroyed overnight.

A trim green and silver-painted craft only 22-1/2 feet long, the Waco was entered to compete in the `` On-to-Spokane '' Air Derby of 1927.

It was heard again in Philadelphia in 1927 in the first version of `` Strike Up The Band '' and again abandoned shortly before the entire show was given up.

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.

A second collection of nursery rhymes, Now We Are Six, was published in 1927.

According to Lovecraft's " History of the Necronomicon " ( written 1927, first published 1938 ), Alhazred was:

The term " Anasazi " was established in archaeological terminology through the Pecos Classification system in 1927.

When Darnley died in 1927 his widow presented the urn to the Marylebone Cricket Club and that was the key event in establishing the urn as the physical embodiment of the legendary ashes.

Akira's only surviving son, Keizo ( b. 1927 ) was taken prisoner and joined the Soviet Army after his capture.

Louie Rice compiled the Kannada version of it and its available 4th edition was printed in 1927 which contains three khandas and 25 sargas.

By 1927, Fleming was investigating the properties of staphylococci.

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.

The libretto was mainly written in early 1927 and the music was finished in the spring of 1929, although both text and music were partly revised by the authors later.

An early by-product, however, was the Mahagonny-Songspiel, sometimes known as Das kleine Mahagonny, a concert work for voices and small orchestra commissioned by the Deutsche Kammermusik Festival in Baden-Baden and premiered there on 18 July 1927.

A. S. Roma was founded in the summer of 1927 when a secretary of the National Fascist Party, Italo Foschi, initiated the merger of three older Italian Football Championship clubs from the city of Rome ; Roman FC, SS Alba-Audace and Fortitudo-Pro Roma SGS.

This approach was continued by Russell and Whitehead in their influential Principia Mathematica, first published 1910-1913, and with a revised second edition in 1927.

Abergavenny is the home of Abergavenny Thursdays F. C., which was formed in 1927, and is currently a member of the Gwent County League Division 3.

It was disbanded a year later, but re-established in various forms until June 1927, when it was established as the Kanda Manseibashi Police Station.

In 1927 welding pioneer Stefan Bryła designed the first welded road bridge in the world, which was later built across the river Słudwia Maurzyce near Łowicz, Poland in 1929.

Describing the fossils was a vast task, pursued by Walcott until his death in 1927.

The paradox of the early Bauhaus was that, although its manifesto proclaimed that the ultimate aim of all creative activity was building, the school did not offer classes in architecture until 1927.

Beads, bangles and earrings were produced by the Catalin Company which introduced 15 new colors in 1927.

The Trades Disputes Act 1927 was repealed, and a Dock Labour Scheme was introduced in 1947 to put an end to the casual system of hiring labour in the docks, Wages for members of the police force were significantly increased.

However it was only in 1927 that the shakta theory of seven main chakras, that has become most popular in the West, was introduced, largely through the translation of two Indian texts: the Sat-Cakra-Nirupana, and the Padaka-Pancaka, by Sir John Woodroffe, alias Arthur Avalon, in a book titled The Serpent Power.

At the International Zoological Congress at Budapest in 1927, Mayr was introduced by Stresemann to banker and naturalist Walter Rothschild, who asked him to undertake an expedition to New Guinea on behalf of himself and the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

The Cinematograph Films Act 1927 introduced protective measures, leading to recovery and an all-time production high of 192 films in 1936 ( see 1936 in film ).

He established diplomatic relations with most major countries and, following a 1927 tour of Europe and Turkey ( during which he noted the modernization and secularization advanced by Atatürk ), introduced several reforms intended to modernize Afghanistan.

He introduced a resolution demanding " complete national independence " in 1927, which was rejected because of Gandhi's opposition.

Molecular orbitals were first introduced by Friedrich Hund and Robert S. Mulliken in 1927 and 1928.

This is the Born – Oppenheimer approximation introduced by Born and Oppenheimer in 1927.

REO's two most memorable cars were its Reo Flying Cloud introduced in 1927 and the Reo Royale 8 of 1931.

Spinors were first applied to mathematical physics by Wolfgang Pauli in 1927, when he introduced spin matrices.

* The first selective Jukeboxes being introduced in 1927 by the Automated Musical Instrument Company.

Changes to the car, save for superficial things like trim levels and colors, remained minimal until 1927, when the new Senior six-cylinder line was introduced.

The first steel boules were introduced in 1927.

When introduced in 1927, the philosophical implications of the new quantum theory were troubling to many prominent physicists of the day, including Albert Einstein.

The formalism was introduced by John von Neumann ( and independently but less systematically by Lev Landau and Felix Bloch in 1927 ).

His next partner, Lucille Bremer, was featured in two lavish vehicles, both directed by Vincente Minnelli: the fantasy Yolanda and the Thief, which featured an avant-garde surrealistic ballet, and the musical revue Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 ), which featured a memorable teaming of Astaire with Gene Kelly to " The Babbit and the Bromide ," a Gershwin song Astaire had introduced with his sister Adele back in 1927.

" Geodetic positions on the North American Datum of 1927 were derived from the ( coordinates of and an azimuth at Meades Ranch ) through a readjustment of the triangulation of the entire network in which Laplace azimuths were introduced, and the Bowie method was used.

In 1927, Deming was introduced to Walter A. Shewhart of the Bell Telephone Laboratories by C. H.

The concept of wavefunction collapse was introduced by Werner Heisenberg in his 1927 paper on the uncertainty principle, " Über den anschaulichen Inhalt der quantentheoretischen Kinematic und Mechanik ", and incorporated into the mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics by John von Neumann, in his 1932 treatise Mathematische Grundlagen der Quantenmechanik.

In 1918 Hobart C. Niblack patented an apparatus that automatically changed records, leading to one of the first selective jukeboxes being introduced in 1927 by the Automated Musical Instrument Company, later known as AMI.

The Soviet Union introduced collective farming in its constituent republics between 1927 and 1933.

In the ensuing years, several modern amenities were introduced in the village, including the first cotton gin ( 1910 ), a public water system ( 1922 ), and electrical service ( 1927 ).

The practice of automatically re-electing the Ceann Comhairle in a general election was introduced by a constitutional amendment in 1927.