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1925 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1925. Events * February 21 – The first issue of ''The New Yorker'' magazine is published by Harold Ross. * February 28 – The first story under the name B. Traven (identified variously as actor Ret Marut or Otto Feige) is published, in '' Vorwärts'' (Berlin). * April – F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway meet in the Dingo Bar, rue Delambre, in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, after the April 10 publication of Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby'' and before Hemingway departs on a trip to Spain that he will fictionalize in ''The Sun Also Rises''. * May 14 – Virginia Woolf's novel ''Mrs Dalloway'' is published by the Hogarth Press in Bloomsbury, London. Woolf is beginning work on '' To the Lighthouse''. * May 20 – C. S. Lewis is elected a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he tutors in English language and literature until 1954. * Summer – Samuel Beckett plays in the first of tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
February 21
Events Pre-1600 *452 or 453 – Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine. *1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery. * 1440 – The Prussian Confederation is formed. 1601–1900 *1613 – Mikhail I is unanimously elected Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia. * 1797 – A force of 1,400 French soldiers invaded Britain at Fishguard in support of the Society of United Irishmen. They were defeated by 500 British reservists. *1804 – The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales. *1808 – Without a previous declaration of war, Russian troops cross the border to Sweden at Abborfors in eastern Finland, thus beginning the Finnish War, in which Sweden will lose the eastern half of the country (i.e. Finland) to Russia. *1828 – Initial issue of the Cherok ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May 20
Events Pre-1600 * 325 – The First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church. * 491 – Empress Ariadne (empress), Ariadne marries Anastasius I Dicorus, Anastasius I. The widowed ''Augusta (honorific), Augusta'' is able to choose her successor for the Byzantine Empire, Byzantine throne, after Zeno (emperor), Zeno (late emperor) dies of dysentery. * 685 – The Battle of Dun Nechtain is fought between a Picts, Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith of Northumbria, Ecgfrith, who are decisively defeated. * 794 – While visiting the royal Mercian court at Sutton Walls Hill Fort, Sutton Walls with a view to marrying princess Ælfthryth of Crowland, Ælfthryth, King Æthelberht II of East Anglia is taken captive and Decapitation, beheaded. *1217 – The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Louis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon James (actor)
Gordon James (22 July 1877 – 3 February 1949) was an English actor who became known as the "heavy" in the Aldwych farces, between 1923 and 1933. He also appeared in some twenty films between 1929 and 1942. Born in Manchester as Sydney Lynn, he was the brother of Ralph Lynn, who co-starred in the Aldwych farces with Tom Walls. James appeared alongside his brother in all twelve of the farces. They were two of only three performers to appear in every one of the Aldwych series; the other was Robertson Hare. James's roles were: George McChesney in '' It Pays to Advertise'' (1923, under his real name); Noony in '' A Cuckoo in the Nest'' (1925); Admiral Juddy in '' Rookery Nook''; Death in '' Thark'' (1927); Simon Veal in ''Plunder'' (1928); Nicholas Ramsbotham in '' A Cup of Kindness'' (1929); Knee in '' A Night Like This'' (1930); Luke Meate in '' Turkey Time'' (1931); Toom in '' Dirty Work'' (1932); Francis in '' Fifty-Fifty'' (1932); and Old Dale in '' A Bit of a Test'' (1933). H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Lynn
Ralph Clifford Lynn (8 March 1882 – 8 August 1962) was an English actor who had a 60-year career, and is best remembered for playing comedy parts in the Aldwych farces first on stage and then in film. Lynn became an actor at the age of 18 and very soon began to be cast in knut or "silly ass" roles. He played such parts as a supporting actor for more than two decades until 1922, when he was cast in the lead of a new West End farce, '' Tons of Money'', in which he achieved immediate stardom. After the success of this play, its co-producer, the actor-manager Tom Walls, leased the Aldwych Theatre in London, where for the next ten years he and Lynn co-starred in a series of successful farces, most of which were written for them by Ben Travers. Many of the Aldwych farces were made into films starring Lynn and Walls, and the two were ranked among the most popular British film actors of the 1930s. He continued his stage career during and after the Second World War, scoring ano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |