After Sun's death from cancer in 1925, one of his protégés, Chiang Kai-shek, seized control of the Kuomintang ( Nationalist Party or KMT ) and succeeded in bringing most of south and central China under its rule in a military campaign known as the Northern Expedition ( 1926 – 1927 ).

It was only early 1927 when they finally succeeded in shutting the northern coast of the sultanate, thus cutting arms and ammunition supplies for the Majeerteen.

The Communist Party of China ( CCP ), founded in 1921 by Chen Duxiu with Soviet support, initially collaborated with the Chinese Nationalist Party or Kuomintang ( KMT ), founded by the revolutionary republican Sun Yat-sen. After the unexpected death of Sun in March 1925, a power struggle within the KMT favored Chiang Kai-shek, whose Northern Expedition forces succeeded in wresting control of large areas of China from local warlords, establishing a unified government in Nanjing in April 1927.

In 1927, he succeeded Kurt Tucholsky as editor-in-chief of the periodical Die Weltbühne.

He was an Honorary Associate of the Rationalist Press Association from 1927 until his death, and on the formation of the British Humanist Association in 1963 became its first President, to be succeeded by AJ Ayer in 1965.

An entire federal agency, the Federal Radio Commission was formed in 1927 and succeeded in 1934 by the Federal Communications Commission.

He was succeeded in 1927 by Charles M. Schwab.

He succeeded his uncle as Baron Killanin in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1927, which allowed him to sit in the House of Lords at the Palace of Westminster as Lord Killanin upon turning 21.

Charles Patrick John Coghlan was the first Premier of Southern Rhodesia and upon his death in 1927 he was succeeded by Howard Unwin Moffat.

He was in 1927 appointed as South Africa's governor general by George V, King of the United Kingdom, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Stanley Baldwin, to replace Prince Arthur of Connaught as viceroy, and he occupied the post until succeeded by the Earl of Clarendon in 1930.

Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge, GCB, GCVO, CMG ( Adolphus Charles Alexander Albert Edward George Philip Louis Ladislaus ), born Prince Adolphus of Teck and later The Duke of Teck ( 13 August 1868 – 23 October 1927 ), was a member of the British Royal Family, a great-grandson of King George III and younger brother of Queen Mary, the consort of King George V. In 1900, he succeeded his father as Duke of Teck in the Kingdom of Württemberg.

He succeeded his father as 2nd Marquess of Cambridge on 24 October 1927.

On 29 April 1927 Ernst Udet succeeded in taking off from the Schneeferner with a glider ; he landed at Lermoos after a 25 minute flight.

He was succeeded by his grandson, the tenth Earl, the son of George William Coventry, Viscount Deerhurst ( 1865 – 1927 ), eldest son of the ninth Earl.

Ruthenberg died in 1927 and his ally, Lovestone, succeeded him as party secretary.

* Sir Bertram Stanley Mitford Bowyer, 10th Baronet ( b. 1927 ) ( had previously succeeded as Baron Denham )

In that, they succeeded as they moved through state after state from Mato Grosso to Maranhão and back, before seeking refuge in Bolivia in 1927 ".

In November 1927 U. S. aircraft succeeded in locating El Chipote, Sandino's remote mountain headquarters east of San Albino Mine.

James Vernor died October 29, 1927 and was succeeded by his son, James Vernor Jr.

When Guinness succeeded his father as 2nd Earl of Iveagh in 1927, the seat was won by his wife, Gwendolen Guinness, Countess of Iveagh, who remained MP for Southend until she retired in 1935.

From 1927 to 1929, Casella was the principal conductor of the Boston Pops, where he was succeeded by Arthur Fiedler.

He was Speaker of the Senate when Governor Austin Peay died, and succeeded him according to the terms of the Tennessee State Constitution on October 3, 1927, the only person, as of 2012, to become Governor of Tennessee under this circumstance ( although other Speakers have become governor due to their predecessors ' resignations ).

After his death in 1927, he has been succeeded by his descendants as hereditary leaders of the brotherhood with absolute authority over the followers.

Hugh Barton ( 1766 – 1854 ) was in turn succeeded by Nathaniel Barton ( 1799 – 1867 ), Hugh Lyndoch Barton ( 1824 – 1899 ), Bertram Francis Barton ( 1830 – 1904 ), Bertram Hugh Barton ( 1858 – 1927 ) and Capt Frederick ( Derick ) Barton ( 1900 – 1993 ).

His mentor was now Alexander von Zemlinsky, under whose direction he served as a conductor at the New German Theatre of Prague ( now the Prague State Opera ) until 1927.

In 1927 he followed Zemlinsky to Berlin, where he was introduced to Albert Roussel.

" Alabama Song " was written and composed by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill in 1927, for their opera Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny ( Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny ); " Back Door Man " was written by Willie Dixon and originally recorded by Howlin ' Wolf.

** Grace Van Studdiford, American stage actress & opera singer ( d. 1927 )

In 1927, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari wrote a verismo opera called Sly, or The Legend of the Sleeper Awoken, based on the prologue of the play, with a libretto by Giovacchino Forzano.

* The Letter ( opera ), a 2009 opera to be presented by the Santa Fe Opera and based on the 1927 play by W. Somerset Maugham

The Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck wrote a 90 ' one-act opera, Penthesilea ( Dresden, 1927 ) based on Kleist's drama.

* Grace Van Studdiford ( 1873 – 1927 ), stage actress and opera singer

* Richard T. Gill ( 1927 – 2010 ), Harvard University economist who became an opera singer at midlife.

* Jess Thomas ( 1927 – 1993 ), American opera singer

During this time, he wrote his one act opera Sous le masque ( 1927 ).

In 1885 Herbert became romantically involved with Therese Förster ( 1861 – 1927 ), a soprano who had recently joined the court opera for which the court orchestra played.

Another descendant of Heyward was DuBose Heyward ( 1885 – 1940 ), a poet, novelist and playwright who influenced the Southern Renaissance and is most well known for the 1925 novel and 1927 play Porgy, and the libretto to the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess, by George Gershwin and based on the play.

Having fallen somewhat out of favour as the 19th Century progressed, notable performances of the opera were presented from the 1920s in " Turin ( 1825 ), Rome ( 1927 ) and London ( 1935 )" and it has been revived frequently after World War II with many successful productions.

* An opera by Hooper Brewster-Jones, an Australian composer ( Orroroo, S. Australia, 1887-Adelaide, 1949 ) The Nightingale and the Rose, 1927 ( after Wilde of which only an orchestral suite survives.

* One act opera by Margaret Garwood, an American composer ( born Haddonfield, NJ, 1927 ) The Nightingale and the Rose, ( libretto by Garwood, after Oscar Wilde, Chester, Widener College Alumni Auditorium, 21 Oct 1973

Maurice Béjart ( 1 January 1927 – 22 November 2007 ) was a French-born Swiss dancer, choreographer and opera director who ran the Béjart Ballet Lausanne in Switzerland.

From 1927 to 1949, Beijing was known as Beiping, and Peking opera was known as Pingxi or Pingju ( 平劇 ) to reflect this change.

The French premiere of the opera itself came in 1927 at the Palais Garnier in Paris on 11 February 1927 with conductor Philippe Gaubert.

The opera, written between 1927 and 1928, uses a montage of different styles, including folk music, popular song and atonality.

Isabel Jay ( October 17, 1879 – February 26, 1927 ) was an English opera singer and actress, best known for her performances in soprano roles of the Savoy Operas with the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company and in musical comedies.

* John Luther Long ( 1861 – 1927 ), American lawyer and writer whose short story Madame Butterfly inspired the opera by Puccini

This novel was adapted and produced in 1927 as a play by the same name ( which he co-authored with his wife Dorothy ) and, in turn, the opera Porgy and Bess ( 1935 ) with music by George Gershwin.

Opening on Broadway in 1927, the non-musical play " Porgy " was a considerable success, more so than the Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess ( 1935 ) produced eight years later.