James Whale lived as an openly homosexual man throughout his career in the British theatre and in Hollywood, something that was virtually unheard of in the 1920s and 1930s.

Stars such as Dorothy Mackaill, Bebe Daniels, Frank Fay, Winnie Lightner, Bernice Claire, Alexander Gray, Alice White, and Jack Mulhall that had characterized the urban, modern, and sophisticated attitude of the 1920s gave way to stars such James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Edward G. Robinson, Warren William, and Barbara Stanwyck who would be more acceptable to the common man.

* Belgian — Ensor, James: Pierrot and Skeletons ( 1905 ), Pierrot and Skeletons ( 1907 ), Intrigued Masks ( 1930 ); Henrion, Armand: Series of self-portraits as Pierrot ( 1920s ).

Richmond's elite society has also been portrayed in various popular culture references, such as in 1920s novels by Ellen Glasgow and James Branch Cabell, or the 1990s television sitcom A Different World, which featured the character Whitley Gilbert, an obnoxious and wealthy African American debutante.

The town's unique name went largely unnoticed until the late 1920s, when Postmaster James Martin began promoting the Santa Claus postmark.

The city was founded by Glenn Hammond Curtiss, " The Father of Naval Aviation ", and James Bright, during the famous " land boom " of the 1920s and was originally named Country Club Estates.

Healy was also unique ( along with his successor, James McNeill ) amongst all the Governors-General in the British Empire in the 1920s in that he was never sworn in as a member of the Imperial Privy Council.

Fleming, better known as the creator of James Bond, took his inspiration for the subject from a series of aero-engined racing cars called " Chitty Bang Bang ", built by Count Louis Zborowski in the early 1920s at Higham Park.

The advent of radio in the 1920s greatly increased the audience for gospel music, and James D. Vaughan used radio as an integral part of his business model, which also included traveling quartets to publicize the gospel music books he published several times a year.

In the early 1920s, the College ’ s growth led its president, James A. Blaisdell, to call for “ a group of institutions divided into small colleges — somewhat of an Oxford type — around a library and other utilities which they would use in common .” This would allow Pomona to retain its small, liberal arts-focused teaching while gaining the resources of a larger university.

" Noted baseball historian Bill James does not refute this claim, but adds that during the 1920s, the Klan had toned down its racist overtures and pulled in hundreds of thousands of non-racist men, including Hugo Black.

Particularly, the movie's portrayal of James Gardiner, premier of Saskatchewan from the late 1920s to mid-1930s, was objected to by political historians and the Gardiner family itself.

* Southern Gospel pioneer and music publisher James David Vaughan ( 1864 – 1941 ), the founder of the Vaughan Conservatory of Music ( 1911 ) and the James D. Vaughan Publishing Company ( 1902 ), who was inducted into the Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1997, became a member of the Church of the Nazarene in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee ( now known as Vaughan Memorial Church of the Nazarene ) in the 1920s, and brought the singing Speers Family into the denomination.

A step up in sophistication from the sing-outs was represented by the first widely established sailors ’ work song of the 19th century, “ Cheer ’ ly Man .” Though other work-chants were evidently too variable, non-descript, or incidental to receive titles, “ Cheer ’ ly Man ” appears referred to by name several times in the early part of the century, and it lived on alongside later-styled shanties to be remembered even by sailors recorded by James Madison Carpenter in the 1920s.

Even more prolific in collecting shanties was James Madison Carpenter, who made hundreds of recordings of shanties from singers in Britain, Ireland, and the north-eastern U. S. in the late 1920s, allowing him to make observation from an extensive set of field data.

Justices James McReynolds, George Sutherland, Willis Van Devanter, and Pierce Butler emerged during the 1920s and 1930s as the foremost defenders of traditional limitations on government power on the Supreme Court ; they were collectively dubbed by partisans of the New Deal the " Four Horsemen of Reaction " as a result.

James Gripton owned a radio shop in Birmingham Street from the 1920s and this reconstruction, set in 1939, contains ‘ new ’ and second radios for sale, some of which date to the 1920s.

For example American-based fiddlers like Michael Coleman, James Morrison and Paddy Killoran did much to popularise Irish music in the 1920s and 1930s.

By the 1920s it had in addition to the previously mentioned authors a literary list that included Anthony Hope, G. K. Chesterton, Henry James, D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, Ruth Manning-Sanders and The Arden Shakespeare series.

The kinship of the latter is with other kitsch images, like Bufford's cover for " The Death of Minnehaha " ( see above ) or those of the 1920s calendar painters James Arthur and Rudolph F. Ingerle ( 1879 – 1950 ).

* Eddie James – player ( FW ), 1963 ( Regina Roughriders 1920s – 1930s ; Regina Pats 1928 ; Winnipeg St. John's 1930, 1932 ; Winnipeg ' Pegs 1935 ).

* James Jones ( cricketer ), cricketer for Somerset and Glamorgan in the 1920s

* Joyce Cave, English squash player in the 1920s

In the 1920s he spent time in Paris on the second edition of James Joyce's Ulysses, at that time subject to censorship, and on French translations of Joyce.

Alice Joyce ( born October 1, 1890 – October 9, 1955 ) was an American actress, who appeared in more than 200 movies during the 1910s and 1920s, perhaps best known for her roles in the 1923 silent and 1930 talking versions of The Green Goddess.

Shakespeare and Company ( bookshop ) in Paris during the Sylvia Beach period in the 1920s was often visited by authors belonging to the " lost generation " such as Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and James Joyce.

The movement kept trying in the 1920s, losing three more referenda by close votes ; it managed to keep in place a 6pm closing hour for pubs and Sunday closing.

The movement kept trying in the 1920s, losing three more referenda by close votes ; it managed to keep in place a 6pm closing hour for pubs and Sunday closing.

As head of the Comintern, Zinoviev deserved most of the blame for the failures of the several Communist attempts at seizing power in Germany during the early 1920s, but he managed to shift it to Karl Radek, the Comintern's representative in Germany at the time.

During the late 1920s and early 1930s, Miller managed to earn a living working as a freelance trombonist in several bands.

Into the 1920s, the federal government in Rio de Janeiro was dominated and managed by a combination of the more powerful states of São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Rio Grande do Sul and to a lesser extent Pernambuco, and Bahia.

During the 1920s, she also managed Ida Cox and Her Raisin ' Cain Company, her own vaudeville troupe.

"... he proximate cause of the world depression was a structurally flawed and poorly managed international gold standard ... For a variety of reasons, including among others a desire of the Federal Reserve to curb the US stock market boom, monetary policy in several major countries turned contractionary in the late 1920s — a contraction that was transmitted worldwide by the gold standard.

The forest is owned and managed by the United Kingdom Forestry Commission, which initiated the first plantings in the 1920s.

Prior to the 1920s, the land was predominantly open moorland, managed for grouse shooting and sheep grazing with remnants of native upland woodland existing along stream sides and in isolated craggy areas.

He was encouraged to enter the game through his father Christy who played for Bohemians in the 1920s and managed Drumcondra during the 1940s.

He managed the Cardinals ( 1913 – 1917 ) and New York Yankees ( 1918 – 1929 ), including the Murderers ' Row teams of the 1920s that won six American League ( AL ) pennants and three World Series championships.

After a short pull-back, a quick recovery followed and Steaua managed a six consecutive championship streak between 1992 – 93 and 1997 – 98 to equalise the 1920s performance of Chinezul Timișoara and also three more cups in 1995 – 96, 1996 – 97 and 1998 – 99.

In Switzerland, Cameron met the principal psychiatrist of the province of Manitoba, A. T. Mathers, who convinced the young Cameron to come to Manitoba, a place not at the forefront of psychiatry in the 1920s, but Cameron managed to have a successful career.

Before his early release was granted, Frenkel had organised and then managed the Ekonomicheskaya kommercheskaya chast, the Economic-Commercial Department of SLON, through which he tried to make the Solovetsky camps not merely self-supporting in accordance with the concentration camp decrees but profitable with the result that they began to take work away from other state undertakings: an element of competition remained in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and Frenkel took advantage of this.

Samsonov memorial, erected in the 1920s at Samsonov's place of death Only 10, 000 of the 150, 000 Russian soldiers managed to escape the encirclement.

From the beginning of motion pictures in the 1900s to the early 1920s, the moguls that owned or managed big film studios did not want to bill the actors appearing in their films because they did not want to recreate the star system that was very prominent on Broadway at that time.

In 1973, the Scottish astronomer and science fiction writer Duncan Lunan claimed to have managed to interpret a message caught in the 1920s by two Norwegian physicists that, according to his theory, came from a probe orbiting the Moon and sent there by the inhabitants of a planet orbiting Epsilon Boötis.

Throughout the 1910s and 1920s, while serving as an administrator, Witte managed to publish consistently.

Despite that fact, during 1920s and 1930s Darne company managed to refine an aircraft variant of the machine gun to the point of its adoption by French and some other air forces for the role of an observers gun.

Black family history has it that Tom and his brother managed a coffee plantation in British East Africa, in the 1920s.

By 1953 they had produced 600 shows under their credits and had booked 1, 000 shows into their numerous theatres. By the 1920s, they owned, operated, managed or booked over 1, 000 theatres nationwide.

Later, during the 1920s through the 1940s, the noted global host Claude H. Bennett, managed the rebuilt and greatly enlarged Philadelphia hotel.

Kadoorie and his brother Sir Horace Kadoorie worked for Victor Sassoon during the 1920s and 1930s, and managed his famous Shanghai hotel.

Thrown together from various regions of Ukraine, writers managed to replay on a small scale the activity of the 1920s.