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.

In 1931, Chevalier starred in a musical called The Smiling Lieutenant with Claudette Colbert and Miriam Hopkins.

He also starred in The Bat Whispers ( 1930 ) and Corsair ( 1931 ), both directed by West.

) Soon afterward, he starred in another MGM musical film, New Moon, opposite Grace Moore and The Cuban Love Song ( 1931 ), with the Mexican Spitfire, Lupe Vélez.

He starred in extravagant early Technicolor musicals, including The Bride of the Regiment ( 1930 ), Sweet Kitty Bellairs ( 1930 ), Viennese Nights ( 1930 ) and Kiss Me Again ( 1931 ).

Fleming's version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1941 ), with Spencer Tracy, was generally rated below Rouben Mamoulian's 1931 Pre-Code version, which had starred Fredric March.

* Stephen Boyd ( 1931 – 1977 ) — starred in Ben-Hur ( 1959 ), Fantastic Voyage ( 1966 ) and many other films, was born in nearby Whitehouse and lived in Glengormley.

The chilling German film M ( 1931 ) directed by Fritz Lang, starred Peter Lorre ( in his first film role ) as a criminal deviant who preys on children.

Carnera appeared in a short film in 1931 and had a role as himself in 1933 movie The Prizefighter and the Lady, which starred Max Baer and Myrna Loy.

During her years at Warner Brothers she starred in such pictures as My Past ( 1931 ), Honor of the Family ( 1931 ) and the extremely successful 1931 pre-code version of The Maltese Falcon, which opened to rave reviews.

A 1931 film, also called A Connecticut Yankee, starred Will Rogers.

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 ).

In 1931, Todd became romantically involved with director Roland West, and starred in his film Corsair.

In 1931 realized the first Mexican talkie movie, an adaptation of the Federico Gamboa's novel Santa, directed by Antonio Moreno and starred by the Mexican-Hollywood star Lupita Tovar.

He starred in the original 1928 production of Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera, as well as the subsequent 1931 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst.

She starred in the film An American Tragedy ( 1931 ) in a role later recreated by Elizabeth Taylor in the 1951 retitled remake, A Place in the Sun.

Tab Hunter ( born Arthur Andrew Kelm ; July 11, 1931 ) is an American actor, singer and author who has starred in over forty major films.

The Ghost Train was first filmed in 1931 and again filmed in 1941 when it starred Arthur Askey.

She starred opposite Leslie Howard in Candle Light, an Austrian play adapted by Wodehouse, in 1929, and in 1931 she and Noël Coward triumphed in his play Private Lives, first in the UK, and later on Broadway.

Grange also starred in a 12 part serial series The Galloping Ghost in 1931.

In 1931 Hörbiger starred in Die große Liebe, the first film ever directed by Otto Preminger.

William Ernest " Bill " Walsh ( November 30, 1931 – July 30, 2007 ) was the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers and the Stanford Cardinal football team, during which time he popularized the West Coast offense.

Dialogue now took precedence over " slapstick " in Hollywood comedies: the fast-paced, witty banter of The Front Page ( 1931 ) or It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), the sexual double entrendres of Mae West ( She Done Him Wrong, 1933 ) or the often subversively anarchic nonsense talk of the Marx Brothers ( Duck Soup, 1933 ).

** from 1 October 1922 Walvisbaai's administration ( still merely having a Magistrate until its 16 March 1931 Municipal status, thence a Mayor ) was also assigned to South West Africa Mandate

In 1931, Meher Baba made the first of many visits to the West, where he attracted many followers.

Thomas Edison died of complications of diabetes on October 18, 1931, in his home, " Glenmont " in Llewellyn Park in West Orange, New Jersey, which he had purchased in 1886 as a wedding gift for Mina.

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 Harrison established an 11 acre ( 45, 000 m² ) summer retreat in West Hills, New York, which was a very early example and workshop for the International Style in the United States, and a social and intellectual center of architecture, art, and politics.

It was adapted by Talbot Jennings, Tess Slesinger, and Claudine West from the play by Donald Davis and Owen Davis, which was in itself based on the 1931 novel of the same name by Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck The film was directed by Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming ( uncredited ) and Gustav Machaty ( uncredited ).

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.

In 1931, architect Noel L. Miller converted three row houses on West 8th Street in Greenwich Village – one of which had been the location of the " Studio Club " – to be the museum's home as well as a residence for Whitney.

Within a matter of years he had followed this up with a string of further works: The Forest Cultures of Northern Europe: A Study in Evolution and Diffusion ( 1931 ), The Continental Affinities of British Neolithic Pottery ( 1932 ) and Neolithic Settlement in the West of Scotland ( 1934 ).

In the sound era McCarey ventured into feature-film direction, working with many of the biggest stars of the era, including Gloria Swanson ( Indiscreet, 1931 ), Eddie Cantor ( The Kid From Spain, 1932 ), the Marx Brothers ( Duck Soup, 1933 ), W. C. Fields ( Six of a Kind, 1934 ), Mae West ( Belle of the Nineties, 1934 ), and Harold Lloyd ( The Milky Way, 1936 ).

Since 1931, West New York has been governed under the Walsh Act form of New Jersey municipal government by a five-member commission.

In 1931, a dam was constructed approximately three miles west of town on the West Fork of the Trinity River, creating Lake Bridgeport.

* September 5 – The posthumous world première of Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 4 ( for the left hand ), composed in 1931, takes place in Berlin, performed by Siegfried Rapp and the West Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Martin Rich.

He had his initial success as a stage actor in classical roles, first winning stardom during a successful two seasons at the Old Vic Theatre from 1929 to 1931 where his performances as Richard II and Hamlet were particularly acclaimed, the latter being the first Old Vic production to be transferred to the West End for a run.

London's West End staged two successful revivals in 1915 as well as in 1931, and several Broadway revivals enjoyed great success as well, the first being mounted a mere year after the closing of the original production in 1901 followed by another notable foray into the public eye three years later.

* 1931 ( 3 ) Florida West Coast Open, La Gorce Open, Lannin Memorial Tournament

* West of Scotland Cup: 1931 – 32, 1950 – 51, 1955 – 56, 1961 – 62, 1969 – 70, 1970 – 71, 1989 – 90, 2009-2010, 2011-2012

The existence of the GRU was not publicized during the Soviet era, although documents concerning it became available in the West in the late 1920s and it was mentioned in the 1931 memoirs of the first OGPU defector, Georges Agabekov, and described in detail in the 1939 autobiography ( I Was Stalin's Agent ) of Walter Krivitsky, the most senior Red Army intelligence officer ever to defect.