In 1931, he released Enthusiasm: Symphony of the Donbass, an examination into Soviet miners.

Lang's magnum opus, M — released in 1931, two years before his departure from Germany — is among the first major crime films of the sound era to join a characteristically noirish visual style with a noir-type plot, one in which the protagonist is a criminal ( as are his most successful pursuers ).

The film was completed in September 1931, but the censorship of the Hays Code prevented it from being released as Hawks and Hughes had originally intended, and the two men fought the Hays Office ( and made compromises ) for over a year until the film was released in 1932, after such other pivotal early gangster films as The Public Enemy and Little Caesar.

Hollywood released more than 100 musical films in 1930, but only 14 in 1931.

* 1931 – Alam Ara, India's first talkie film, is released.

Details of the case were not released to the press, but the evidence against Nurmi was believed be the sworn statements from German race promoters that Nurmi had received $ 250 – 500 per race when running in Germany in autumn 1931.

Warner Bros. released a large number of color films from 1929 to 1931, including The Show of Shows ( 1929 ), Sally ( 1929 ), Bright Lights ( 1930 ), Golden Dawn ( 1930 ), Hold Everything ( 1930 ), Song of the Flame ( 1930 ), Song of the West ( 1930 ), The Life of the Party ( 1930 ), Sweet Kitty Bellairs ( 1930 ), Under A Texas Moon ( 1930 ), Bride of the Regiment ( 1930 ), Viennese Nights ( 1931 ), Woman Hungry ( 1931 ), Kiss Me Again ( 1931 ), Fifty Million Frenchmen ( 1931 ), and Manhattan Parade ( 1932 ).

In 1931, Henderson recorded a new version of " Clarinet Marmalade ", which was released on Columbia

#" Tiger Rag " was recorded in 1931 and was released on Crown

James Stedman-Henderson's Sweets Ltd released Jaffas onto the Australian and New Zealand markets in 1931.

Skippy is a film that was released in 1931.

The Smiling Lieutenant ( 1931 ) is an American film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Maurice Chevalier and Claudette Colbert, and released by Paramount Pictures.

The Public Enemy ( released as Enemies of the Public in the United Kingdom ) is a 1931 American Pre-Code crime film starring James Cagney and directed by William A. Wellman.

Early in 1931, Jack Lang released his own plan to combat the Depression ; this became known as " the Lang Plan ".

Daniel Ellsberg ( born April 7, 1931 ) is a former United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U. S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers.

* Tabu ( released 18 March 1931 )

Also in late 1931, RCA Victor developed and released the first 33⅓-rpm records to the public ( known as " Program Transcriptions ").

Young baritone sensation Bing Crosby released a version in 1931, and by the following year, over two dozen bands had recorded " Stardust.

The first cartoon of the new Merrie Melodies series was Lady, Play Your Mandolin !, released in 1931.

Ben-Gurion published two volumes setting out his views on relations between Zionists and the Arab world: We and Our Neighbors, published in 1931, and My Meetings with Arab Leaders published in 1967.

Narayanan had his early schooling in Uzhavoor at the Government Lower Primary School, Kurichithanam ( where he enrolled on 5 May 1927 ) and Our Lady of Lourdes Upper Primary School, Uzhavoor ( 1931 – 35 ).

Maywood is home to Our Lady Queen of Peace Roman Catholic Church, First Presbyterian Church, Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, Zion Lutheran Church, St. Martin's Episcopal Church, and Temple Beth Israel, a Reconstructionist synagogue established in 1928, which moved to its current location in 1931.

Darla Hood of " Our Gang " fame was born in Leedey on November 4th, 1931.

Henderson's biggest hit songs included " That Old Gang of Mine " ( from the entries of Our Gang comedy shorts in the 1930's ), " Annabelle " ( both 1923 ), " Bye Bye Blackbird ", " Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue ", " I'm Sitting on Top of the World " ( all 1925 ), " The Birth of the Blues " ( 1926 ), " The Varsity Drag " ( 1927 ), " You're The Cream In My Coffee " ( 1928 ), " Button Up Your Overcoat ", " You Are My Lucky Star " " I'm A Dreamer, Aren't We All ", " Keep Your Sunny Side Up " ( 1929 ), " The Thrill Is Gone ", and " Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries " ( 1931 ).

Richet's works on parascientific subjects, which dominated his late years, include Traité de Métapsychique ( Treatise on Metapsychics, 1922 ), Notre Sixième Sens ( Our Sixth Sense, 1928 ), L ' Avenir et la Prémonition ( The Future and Premonition, 1931 ) and La grande espérance ( The Great Hope, 1933 ).

( Douglas Reed, ' All Our Tomorrows ' pub. 1942, pg. 62 ~ Geneva, 1931, Sir John Simon congratulated by the Japanese emissary for presentation of Japan's case against China ').

Her most famous song, which became her theme, " Sally ," was worked into the title of her first film, Sally in Our Alley ( 1931 ), which was a major box office hit.

* Sally in Our Alley ( 1931 )

In 1931 at a mass rally, she is quoted saying, " Our main goal is to find a new form of preventing pregnancy and therefore to make the entire 218 unnecessary.

A Tibetan Buddhist monk and scholar ; Geshe Kelsang has written twenty books that aim to provide Western Dharma practitioners with essential Buddhist texts ; some are books for beginners such as Transform Your Life and How to Solve Our Human Problems, books about the Mahayana path like Universal Compassion ( Lojong ), and books on Vajrayana ( Tantra ) like Mahamudra Tantra ; ( born 1931, in Tibet ).

Also designed by the firm is Our Lady of Sorrows church located in South Orange, New Jersey, which was dedicated in 1931.

Allen Clayton Hoskins ( August 9, 1920 – July 26, 1980 ) was an American child actor, most famous for portraying the character of Farina in the Our Gang short films from 1922 to 1931.

She had already made her film debut with a minor role in Our Boys in 1915, when she appeared in the 1931 film Hobson's Choice.

William " Billie " Thomas, Jr. ( March 12, 1931 – October 10, 1980 ) was an American child actor best remembered for portraying the character of Buckwheat in the Our Gang ( Little Rascals ) short films from 1934 until the series ' end in 1944.

Over the next few years he spent much of his time writing Year One of the Russian Revolution ( 1930 ), completing two novels, Men in Prison ( 1930 ) and Birth of Our Power ( 1931 ), and translating Vera Figner's Memoires d ' un révolutionnaire into French.

Norman Myers Chaney ( October 18, 1914 – May 29, 1936 ) was an American child actor, notable for appearing in the Our Gang comedies as " Chubby " from 1929 to 1931.

Both Chaney and his parents decided he would not pursue acting following his final Our Gang short, Fly My Kite ( 1931 ).

Jackie Cooper, who had been in the series for about as long as Chaney, also departed Our Gang in early 1931, as did Mary Ann Jackson, a holdover from the silent era, and stalwart kid Allen Hoskins, a member of the original 1922 cast.

Mary Ann Jackson ( January 14, 1923-December 17, 2003 ) was an American former child actress who appeared in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1928 to 1931.

Jerry Tucker ( born November 1, 1925 ) is a former American child actor, most notable for appearing as the " rich kid " in the Our Gang short subjects series semi-regularly from 1931 to 1938.

Tucker first appeared in the 1931 Our Gang short Shiver My Timbers.

Bond was hired at Hal Roach Studios for the Our Gang series in the summer of 1931 to begin work that upcoming fall, at around the same time as George " Spanky " McFarland was hired.

In 1931, he joined the Our Gang series, first appearing in the 1932 Our Gang short Readin ' and Writin '.