According to Volume I of her diaries, 1931 – 1934, published in 1966 ( Stuhlmann ), Nin first came across erotica when she returned to Paris with her mother and two brothers in her late teens.

Unable to return to Greece, she emigrated to the United States, where she had earlier appeared in 1931, performing Clytemnestra in a modern Greek version of Electra.

* 7-Cecile de Brunhoff, 99, inspired the Babar the Elephant children's books when she told it to her children as a bedtime story in 1931.

In 1931, she married her boss, Sture Lindgren ( 1898 – 1952 ).

At Columbia he met his future wife, Ruth D. Masters, a graduate student in international law, whom he married in 1931 after she returned from her doctoral studies at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Baptized on January 1, 1922, she gave up her assistantship with Husserl to teach at the Dominican nuns ' schools school in Speyer from 1923 to 1931.

In 1931, she starred opposite Clark Gable in Possessed.

In 1931 she married Enrique Alvarez Alatorre, a seller of Max Factor whom she met in Guadalajara.

Astor conceded this, but her closeness with other female MPs dissipated with time and by 1931 she became hostile to female Labour members such as Susan Lawrence.

Though Mistinguett never married, she had a son, Léopoldo João de Lima e Silva, by Brazilian diplomat Leopoldo de Lima e Silva ( died 1931 ); the latter was a grandson of the Duke of Caxias.

During the summer of 1931, Stein advised the young composer and writer Paul Bowles to go to Tangier, where she and Alice had vacationed.

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 1931, she played the World War I spy in Mata Hari, opposite screen idol Ramón Novarro, and in 1932 she was part of an all-star cast in Grand Hotel in which she played a Russian ballerina.

For example, in Love ( 1927 ) a title card reads, " I like to be alone "; in The Single Standard ( 1929 ) her character says, " I am walking alone because I want to be alone "; in Susan Lenox ( Her Fall and Rise ) ( 1931 ) she says to a suitor, " This time I rise ... and fall ... alone "; in Inspiration ( 1931 ) she tells a fickle lover, " I just want to be alone for a little while "; in Mata Hari ( 1931 ) she says to her new amour, " I never look ahead.

" Hop Picking ", by Eric Blair, appeared in the October 1931 issue of New Statesman, whose editorial staff included his old friend Cyril Connolly.

Leslie Claire Margaret Caron (; born 1 July 1931 ) is a French film actress and dancer, who appeared in 45 films between 1951 and 2003.

She had earlier appeared on the October 26, 1931 cover along-side her husband and on the January 3, 1937 cover with her husband as " Man and Wife of the Year )" Both husband and wife were on good terms with Time Magazine senior editor and co-founder Henry Luce, who frequently tried to rally money and support from the American public for the Republic of China.

The notice appeared in October 1931 and began with a bit of hyperbole and an incorrect fact, two hallmarks of much of the subsequent writing about Beiderbecke: " The announcement of Bix Beiderbecke's death plunged all jazz musicians into despair.

Gödel's first incompleteness theorem first appeared as " Theorem VI " in Gödel's 1931 paper On Formally Undecidable Propositions in Principia Mathematica and Related Systems I.

He appeared in many West End plays in the following few years and his earliest successes on the stage were as Hercule Poirot in Alibi ( 1928 ); he was the first actor to portray the Belgian detective in this stage adaptation of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, and as William Marble in Payment Deferred, making his Lyceum Theatre ( New York ) debut in 1931.

Universal Studios renewed her contract for three months, and she appeared in a small role in Waterloo Bridge ( 1931 ) before being lent to Columbia Pictures for The Menace and to Capital Films for Hell's House ( all 1932 ).

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.

In 1933, Barrymore appeared as a Jewish attorney in the title role of Counsellor at Law based on Elmer Rice's 1931 play.

Like all of Pluto's co-stars, the dog has appeared extensively in comics over the years, first making an appearance in 1931.

The watchtower from Frankenstein ( 1931 ) appeared as Zarkov's base.

In 1931, Hobart appeared in a B-movie called East of Borneo.

Mickey appeared in an urban setting as early as 1931 in the short film Traffic Troubles where he works as a taxi driver.

Howard is reported to have had an affair with Tallulah Bankhead when they appeared on stage ( in the UK ) in Her Cardboard Lover ( 1927 ); Merle Oberon, while filming The Scarlet Pimpernel ( 1934 ) and Conchita Montenegro, with whom he had appeared in the film Never the Twain Shall Meet ( 1931 ).

Mortimer L. Schiff – After a long tenure as vice-president of the BSA beginning in 1910, during which he also appeared on the cover of Time magazine on February 14, 1927, Mortimer L. Schiff was elected as president in 1931, but died after serving one month and Walter Head returned until 1946.

* Mary Castle ( 1931 – 1998 ), actress who appeared with Jim Davis in the syndicated western television series Stories of the Century ( 1954 – 1955 )

When The Co-Optimists re-formed in 1930, he rejoined that company, now at the Savoy Theatre, and at the same venue appeared in Savoy Follies in 1931, where he introduced to London audiences the monologue The Lion and Albert.

' Lanchester appeared in several other early British talkies, including Potiphar's Wife ( 1931 ), starring Laurence Olivier.

She appeared as Baroness Frankenstein in Bride of Frankenstein ( 1935 ) with Boris Karloff and Colin Clive, taking over the role from Mae Clarke, who had played it in the original Frankenstein ( 1931 ).

Young appeared in over 100 films between 1931 and 1952.

Some of his noteworthy films include The Front Page ( 1931 ), Trouble in Paradise ( 1932 ), Alice in Wonderland ( 1933 ), The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ), Top Hat ( 1935, one of several Astaire / Rogers films in which Horton appeared ), Danger-Love at Work ( 1937 ), Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), Holiday ( 1938 ), Here Comes Mr. Jordan ( 1941 ), Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), Pocketful of Miracles ( 1961 ), and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ).

His enthusiasm for communism soured by the time his memoirs appeared in 1931.

Following the Leipzig premiere, the opera was presented in Berlin in December 1931 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm conducted by Alexander von Zemlinsky with Lotte Lenya as Jenny, Trude Hesterberg as Begbick, and Harald Paulsen as Jimmy.

On his birthday, 16 April, City Lights was screened at a gala at the Dominion Theatre in London, the site of its British premiere in 1931.

Turandot quickly spread to other venues: Rome ( Teatro Costanzi, April 29, four days after the Milan premiere ), Buenos Aires ( Teatro Colón, June 23 ), Dresden ( September 6, in German ), Venice ( La Fenice, September 9 ), Vienna ( October 14 ; Mafalda Salvatini in the title role ), Berlin ( November 8 ), New York ( Metropolitan Opera, November 16 ), Brussels ( La Monnaie, 17 December, in French ), Naples ( Teatro San Carlo, January 17, 1927 ), Parma ( February 12 ), Turin ( March 17 ), London ( Covent Garden, June 7 ), San Francisco ( September 19 ), Bologna ( October 1927 ), Paris ( March 29, 1928 ), Australia 1928, Moscow ( Bolshoi Theatre, 1931 ).

This was his last film ; he died in hospital after an automobile accident on 11 March 1931, a week before the film's premiere in New York.

The film had its premiere on March 18, 1931, a week after Murnau died, at New York's Central Part Theater.

* British premiere: April 16, 1931, London, conducted by Bruno Walter.

* American premiere: October 16, 1931, Boston, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Serge Koussevitzky

Following its premiere at the Opéra Comique in 1883, Lakmé reached its 500th performance there on 23 June 1909 and 1, 000th on 13 May 1931.

In 1931 he participated at the Munich premiere of Alois Hába's quarter-tone opera Mother.

He promised the premiere of this symphony to Serge Koussevitzky in 1931 and 1932, and a London performance in 1933 under Basil Cameron was even advertised to the public.

In 1931, she played the Unknown Woman in the American premiere of Pirandello's As You Desire Me, filmed the following year with Garbo in the same role.

The United States premiere of the opera was given by the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company on March 19, 1931 at the Philadelphia Metropolitan Opera House under the baton of Leopold Stokowski, and, while the UK premiere at Queen's Hall, London on 14 March 1934 was a concert performance only, the opera was given its first staged performance at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 22 January 1952.

His best known work is the opera Mother, which received its premiere at the Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich, Germany in May 1931.

The Paris Opéra gave the belated world premiere in 1931.

At Carnegie Hall in New York, Christmas 1931, he sang in the world premiere of Maria egiziaca ( Mary in Egypt ), unexpectedly conducted by the composer Ottorino Respighi himself when famed conductor Arturo Toscanini fell ill at the last minute.

Her brother-in-law Geoffrey Keynes asked her to provide scenery and costumes for a proposed ballet drawn from William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job to commemorate the centennial of Blake's death ; her second cousin, Ralph Vaughan Williams, wrote the music to the work which became known as Job, a masque for dancing, the premiere of which took place in Cambridge in 1931.

He then planned a premiere for March 9, 1931, in Amsterdam, but these plans also were canceled due to work on the Concerto for the Left Hand, his many public appearances, and his performances of his other works ..

The London premiere was conducted by Adrian Boult in November 1931.

The film was premiered first in New York City on January 26, 1931, to much praise, and a Los Angeles premiere followed on February 6.