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.

Paramount Pictures tried to repeat the success of Flaherty's Nanook and Moana with two romanticized documentaries, Grass ( 1925 ) and Chang ( 1927 ), both directed by Merian Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack.

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.

The 1927 Party Conference gave official endorsement to the policy of Socialism in One Country, while Trotsky along with Kamenev and Zinoviev ( both now allied with Trotsky against Stalin ) were expelled from the Party's Politburo.

In 1927, under Augusto César Sandino, a major peasant uprising was launched against both the U. S. occupation and the Nicaraguan establishment.

Although the release of The Jazz Singer ( 1927 ) by Warner Brothers marked the first commercially successful sound film, silent films were the majority of features released in both 1927 and 1928, along with so-called goat-glanded films: silents with a section of sound film inserted.

The visionary French director, Abel Gance, used the term " Polyvision " to describe his three-camera, three-projector technique for both widening and dividing the screen in his 1927 silent epic, Napoléon.

By 1927, there were 13 states, both in the North and South, that considered some form of anti-evolution law.

They corresponded regularly with the Paris group, and in 1927 both Goemans and Magritte moved to Paris and frequented Breton's circle.

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.

At the same time, KKK vigilantes --- thinking they enjoyed governmental protection — launched a wave of physical terror across Alabama in 1927, targeting both blacks and whites.

He soon became one of Hollywood's highest paid performers, starring in such classics as The Patent Leather Kid ( 1927 ) and The Noose ( 1928 ); he was nominated for Best Actor at the first Academy Awards for his performance in both these films, and he won a Special Citation for producing The Patent Leather Kid.

Her performances in Seventh Heaven ( the first of twelve movies she would make with actor Charles Farrell ) and both Sunrise, directed by F. W. Murnau, and Street Angel ( in 1927, also with Charles Farrell ) earned her the first Academy Award for Best Actress in 1928.

He starred in two silent films directed by Alfred Hitchcock, The Lodger and Downhill, both in 1927.

Another example is that his textbook, as late as the 1927 version, unambiguously states the existence of the ether, and mentions Einstein's theory of relativity only in a noncommittal note at the end of the caption under Einstein's portrait, stating as the last in a list of accomplishments that he was " author of the special theory of relativity in 1905 and of the general theory of relativity in 1914, both of which have had great success in explaining otherwise unexplained phenomena and in predicting new ones.

This allowed him to attend Harvard University in 1927 – 1928 and then both University of Göttingen and University of Amsterdam the following year.

Throughout the rest of the decade, the duo wrote several hit shows for both Broadway and London, including Dearest Enemy ( 1925 ), The Girl Friend ( 1926 ), Peggy-Ann ( 1926 ), A Connecticut Yankee ( 1927 ), and Present Arms ( 1928 ).

The Chinese Civil War ( 1927 – 1950 ) was a civil war fought between the Kuomintang ( KMT ), or the Chinese Nationalist Party-led Nationalist Government of the Republic of China, and the Communist Party of China ( CPC ), for the control of each other's territory which eventually led to two de facto states, the Republic of China ( ROC ) in Taiwan and the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) in mainland China both claiming to be the legitimate government of China.

He is known for directing Two Arabian Knights ( 1927 ) and All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1930 ), both of which received Academy Awards for Best Director.

During the 1920s, Fred and Adele appeared on Broadway and on the London stage in shows such as George and Ira Gershwin's Lady Be Good ( 1924 ) and Funny Face ( 1927 ), and later in The Band Wagon ( 1931 ), winning popular acclaim with the theater crowd on both sides of the Atlantic.

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.

Dingle was a member of the British government eclipse expeditions of 1927 ( Colwyn Bay ) and 1932 ( Montreal ), both of which failed to make any observations due to overcast skies.

" De Forest's process continued to be used through 1927 in the United States for dozens of short Phonofilms ; in the UK it was employed a few years longer for both shorts and features by British Sound Film Productions, a subsidiary of British Talking Pictures, which purchased the primary Phonofilm assets.

From 1927 through to 1946 he was employed as the Abercromby Professor of Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, and at that time was responsible for the excavation of the unique Neolithic settlement of Skara Brae and the chambered tomb of Maeshowe, both in Orkney, northern Scotland.

Anxious to combine the themes of personal transformation found in the works of Arthur Rimbaud with the politics of Karl Marx, Breton joined the French Communist Party in 1927, from which he was expelled in 1933.

Lucy and Desi enlisted the services of Karl Freund, an Academy Award-winning cinematographer of such films as Metropolis ( 1927 ), Dracula ( 1931 ), and The Good Earth ( 1937 ), as well as director of The Mummy ( 1932 ), to be the series cinematographer.

She married Franz Ferdinand Friedrich Ernst Joseph Karl Leopold Mauritius Hubertus Maria, Duke of Hohenberg ( September 13, 1927 – August 15, 1977 ), on May 9, 1956.

* Karl Gottfried Konstantin Dehio ( May 27, 1851, Reval ( Tallinn )-February 26, 1927, Dorpat ( Tartu )), internist, probably Georg's younger brother

In the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 ( 1927 ), Karl Marx identified four types of alienation ( Entfremdung ) that occur to the worker labouring under a capitalist system of industrial production.

* Bochum City Hall was built from 1927 – 1931 and was designed by architect Karl Roth as a modern office building, but in the Renaissance style, reflecting the industrial era's middle class, inventions and discoveries.

Karl Jansky attended college at the University of Wisconsin – Madison where he received his BS in physics in 1927.

* Bücher, Karl ( 1927 ).

Ludwig Karl Martin Leonhard Albrecht Kossel ( 16 September 1853 – 5 July 1927 ) was a German biochemist and pioneer in the study of genetics.

By 1927, Karl Kilbom, the Comintern representative to Germany, had started to combat this ultra leftist tendency of Thälmann within the German Communist Party, but found it to be impossible when he found Stalin was against him.

Karl Oskar Medin ( August 14, 1847 – December 24, 1927 ) was a Swedish pediatrician.

Hans Knappertsbusch and Karl Böhm both conducted it in Munich in 1923, and its first American performance took place at the Smith College of Music in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1927.

* Karl, Prince of Bavaria ( 1874 – 1927 ).

Archduke Joseph August Viktor Klemens Maria of Austria, Prince of Hungary and Bohemia ( 9 August 1872 – 6 July 1962 ) was for a short period head of state of Hungary, a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine and the eldest son of Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria ( 1833 – 1905 ) and his wife Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha ( 1846 – 1927 ).

* Árpád Doppler ( 1857 – 1927 ), Hungarian composer, son of Karl Doppler

He left his empire to his son Friedrich Karl Flick ( 1927 – 2006 ).

It was proved for edge-connectivity and vertex-connectivity by Karl Menger in 1927.

In the 1927 Norwegian parliamentary election he was the fourth ballot candidate for the party National Legion, behind Karl Meyer, Frøis Frøisland and Thorvald Aadahl.

* Karl Alexander Müller ( born 1927 ), Swiss physicist, 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics

From 1927 to 1933, Rostock was assistant medical director at Bergmannsheil Hospital in Bochum and worked with Karl Brandt, who was at that time an intern there.

Friedrich Karl Flick ( 3 February 1927 in Berlin-5 October 2006 in Auen on the Wörthersee, Austria ) was a German-Austrian industrialist and billionaire.

Karl Marx-Hof was built between 1927 and 1930 by city planner Karl Ehn, a follower of Otto Wagner.

In 1927, Karl Kilbom tried to work within the Comintern on how to develop strategies to combat fascism and to defend the Soviet Union against attacks from the Capitalist world.