For example, in the first editions of the collection The Mysterious Mr Quin ( 1930 ), in the short story " The Soul of the Croupier ," she described " Hebraic men with hook-noses wearing rather flamboyant jewellery "; in later editions the passage was edited to describe " sallow men " wearing same.

On a trip to the excavation site at Ur in 1930, she met her future husband, archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan, a distinguished archaeologist, but her fame as an author far surpassed his fame in archaeology.

By 1930, Agatha Christie found Poirot " insufferable ", and by 1960 she felt that he was a " detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep ".

In 1930 she published an autobiography, Background with Figures.

In 1930 she was elected a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters ; in 1933 came membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which two years later organized the first major retrospective of her work.

The Mary Sudik No. 1, " Wild Mary Sudik ", gusher did not blow until March 25, 1930 — she sprayed an estimated an hour ( 133 L / s ) for the next 11 days.

In 1930, she lost the lead role in the Josef von Sternberg-directed The Blue Angel to her neighbour, Marlene Dietrich.

In 1930 she was employed by Melbourne radio station 3 ??

* 1930 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia ( she left on May 5 for the 11, 000 mile flight ).

Many of the ideas about the links between rhymes and historical persons, or events, can be traced back to Katherine Elwes's book The Real Personages of Mother Goose ( 1930 ), in which she linked famous nursery-rhyme characters with real people, on little or no evidence.

From 1902 till 1930, she and Matilda ran Scrooge's empire from his homebase while he was away.

A fight with Scrooge in 1930 ended all relationships between Scrooge and his family and she retired.

Nora Guthrie was eventually committed to the Oklahoma Hospital for the Insane, where she died in 1930 from Huntington's disease.

Under the Hoover administration, she worked on and headed the women's section of the President's Emergency Committee for Employment in 1930, where she worked to gain the cooperation of women's groups for reducing unemployment.

In 1930, she won a contract with Paramount Pictures after having been dropped by both 20th Century and Pathé Exchange.

In 1930, she was known to be Brazil's gem singer, and in 1933 went on to sign a two-year contract with Rádio Mayrink Veiga, becoming the first contract singer in the radio industry history of Brazil.

Her early films cast her as the girl-next-door but for most of the Pre-Code film era beginning with the 1930 film The Divorcee, for which she won an Oscar for Best Actress, she played sexually liberated women in sophisticated contemporary comedies.

There she took a series of sensual portraits which convinced her husband that she could play the lead in MGM's racy new film, The Divorcee ( 1930 ).

With her first talking film, Anna Christie ( 1930 ), she received an Academy Award nomination.

Garbo had successfully made the transition to talkies and after three less profitable films, Romance ( 1930 ), Inspiration ( 1931 ), and Susan Lenox ( Her Fall and Rise ) ( 1931 ), she performed two of her most famous roles.

In 1930, she was signed by Paramount Pictures to a seven-year contract.

He was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Associate in the oil class in 1931 ( after receiving his first Ranger Fund Purchase Prize at the Academy in 1930 ), and elevated to Academicianship in 1940.

The apparatus used by gymnasts was once a common sight in American gyms, but about 1930 it was dropped in favor of games.

that the amplitude of the variation was considerably less than the amplitude of the variation in the infrared emission as measured by Pettit and Nicholson ( 1930 ) and Pettit ( 1935 ) ; ;

The latter now furnishes the area with electricity distributed from a modern sub-station at Manchester Depot which was put into operation February 19, 1930 and was improved in January 1942 by the installation of larger transformers.

To Rickards, a 52-year-old veteran 30 years in the air, it was an old story: His plane was being hijacked in mid-flight again much as it had happened in 1930, when Peruvian rebels made him land a Ford tri-motor at Arequipa.

Winners had been announced three months earlier ; however that was changed in the second ceremony of the Academy Awards in 1930.

The 1 / 4 abacus, which is suited to decimal calculation, appeared circa 1930, and became widespread as the Japanese abandoned hexadecimal weight calculation which was still common in China.

In 1930 the Lauberhorn Rennen ( Lauberhorn Race ), was run for the first time on the Lauberhorn above Wengen ; the equally demanding Hahnenkamm was first run in the same year in Kitzbühl, Austria.

Her first appearance in a full-length novel was in The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930.

A more detailed account of how the Ashes were given to Ivo Bligh was outlined by his wife, the Countess of Darnley, in 1930 during a speech at a cricket luncheon.

As in 1930, the 1934 series was decided in the final Test at The Oval.

Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.

It was included from 1926 to 1930 in Okeh Records ' catalog, which typically concentrated strongly on blues and jazz.

It was recorded with musical accompaniment for the first time in 1930 by Fiddlin ' John Carson, although to another folk hymn named " At the Cross ", not to " New Britain ".

In 1930, the book was adapted as an Oscar-winning film of the same name, directed by Lewis Milestone.

In 1930, an American film of the novel was made, directed by Lewis Milestone.

Although filmed in color, instead of black and white as the earlier 1930 film adaptation was, the wasted and desolated landscapes and environment are very effectively conveyed.

It was first performed in Leipzig on 9 March 1930.

An early season in which Roma made a large mark was the 1930 – 31 championship, the club finished as runners-up behind Juventus.

When the popular musical The Threepenny Opera was filmed by director Georg Pabst, he filmed the first version with a French-speaking cast ( 1930 ), then a second version with a German-speaking cast ( 1931 ).

The Blue Angel ( 1930 ), directed by Josef von Sternberg with the leads played by Marlene Dietrich and Emil Jannings, was filmed simultaneously in English and German ( a different supporting cast was used for each version ).

From 1925 to 1930 Bayer designed a geometric sans-serif Proposal for a Universal Typeface that existed only as a design and was never actually cast into real type.

Then, in 1930, he spotted future stars James Cagney, Joan Blondell, and Frank McHugh in the cast of a New York play called Penny Arcade.

Previous spectacular airship accidents, from the Wingfoot Express disaster ( 1919 ) to the loss of the R101 ( 1930 ), the Akron ( 1933 ) and the Macon ( 1935 ) had already cast doubt on airship safety ; following the destruction of the Hindenburg, the remaining airship making international flights, the Graf Zeppelin was retired ( June 1937 ).

The Phantom of Paris ( 1931 ), originally intended for Lon Chaney who died from cancer in 1930, cast Gilbert as a debonair magician and showman who is falsely accused of murder, and uses his mastery of disguise to unmask the real killer.

* until 1930, only one vote was cast in each game.

In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Coward wrote a succession of popular hits, ranging from the operetta Bitter Sweet ( 1929 ) and the extravaganza Cavalcade ( 1931 ), requiring a large cast, gargantuan sets and a complex hydraulic stage, to the intimate comedies Private Lives ( 1930 ), in which Coward starred alongside Gertrude Lawrence, and Design for Living ( 1932 ).

Among his other well-known films were Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), Sergeant York ( 1941 ), They Were Expendable ( 1945 ), Joan of Arc ( 1948 ), in which he was atypically cast as Captain La Hire, Rio Bravo ( 1959 ), and Raoul Walsh's 1930 widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail, which also featured John Wayne's first leading role.

Written by Goodman Ace, who cast himself as a harried real estate salesman and the exasperated but loving husband of deceptively scatterbrained, malaprop-prone Jane (" You've got to take the bitter with the better "; " Time wounds all heels "), Easy Aces became a long-running serial comedy ( 1930 – 1945 ) and a low-keyed legend of old-time radio for its literate, unobtrusive, conversational style and the malaprops of the female half of the team.

He returned there in October and, in November, joined the cast of Fools in Paradise which took him to March 1930.

The show had major London revivals in 1921, 1930, 1942 ( starring Sylvia Cecil at the London Coliseum ) and 1972 in an Emile Littler production at the Palace Theatre in the West End, and at the Finborough Theatre, London, in December 2006 with a West End cast including Anita Louise Combe, as well as numerous other professional productions elsewhere.

In the summer of 1930 it was decided that a drama should be produced as a new test for and demonstration of the medium, and The Man With the Flower in His Mouth was selected for use because of its short length of around half an hour, its limited cast of only three characters and its confined setting.

He appeared in minor roles until 1930 when he was cast as the star in a Western entitled Billy the Kid and directed by King Vidor.

A treble was added in 1810 ( cast by Thomas Mears II ) and the ring was further augmented to 8 by two new trebles in 1930 ( cast by Mears & Stainbank ).

In a series of flashbacks, Sennett relates the glory days of Keystone Studios from 1911, when he discovered Normand and cast her in dozens of his early " two-reelers ", through his creation of Sennett's Bathing Beauties and the Keystone Cops to Mabel's death from tuberculosis in 1930.

They had previously played the roles in blackface make-up for the 1930 film Check and Double Check, but for the television version they opted to use an African American cast.

Emerson made her Broadway début in Lysistrata in 1930 when New York theatrical producer Norman Bel Geddes cast Emerson for the role of the amazonian Lamputo.

Prior to 1930 when only 1 vote per game was given, and hence a countback was not possible, the WAFL president would cast a deciding vote to decide the winner.

Her final appearance on Broadway was in 1930 in an acclaimed production of The Rivals cast as Mrs. Malaprop.

Fourth-billed Jackie Searl, at nineteen, playing a senior cadet, had the longest career among the junior cast members, with credits going back to the beginning of sound in 1929, almost always portraying sneaky, nasty, pampered, disagreeable kids, including an earlier prototype of cousin Sid to Jackie Coogan's Tom in the 1930 Tom Sawyer and its 1931 sequel, Huckleberry Finn.