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Events relating to america
Unknown American blues singer Huddie Ledbetter, or Leadbelly, is first recorded singing in the Louisiana State Penitentiary
Gertrude Stein publishes a best-selling account of her own life under the title The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
King Kong, an enduringly successful horror film, is based on a story by Edgar Wallace
Erskine Caldwell publishes a novel, God's Little Acre, about a farmer obsessed with finding gold on his farm
The Marx Brothers make their last film as a foursome, Duck Soup, with Zeppo still in the team
Mae West gives Cary Grant his big break, choosing him as her co-star in She Done Him Wrong
19-year-old Mexican poet Octavio Paz publishes his first collection, Wild Moon
25% of workers in Canada are unemployed as the Depression continues to deepen
Arnold Schoenberg leaves his teaching post in Germany, now under Nazi control, and in 1934 settles in Los Angeles
US author Scott FitzGerald publishes his novel Tender Is the Night
US author Henry Miller publishes in Paris a largely sexual autobiography, Tropic of Cancer, about his life as an expatriate
The Indian Reorganization Act restores tribal ownership of land in the US reservations
Five girls are born as quintuplets in the Dionne family of French Catholic farmers in Corbeil, Ontario
Anastasio Somoza, commander of the National Guard, organizes a coup in Nicaragua
Erich Korngold, one of Austria's most admired composers, moves to Hollywood
Elijah Muhammad takes control of the Nation of Islam, or Black Muslims, and leads the movement for more than 40 years
In Lillian Hellman's play The Children's Hour two teachers are maliciously accused of lesbianism by one of their pupils
6-year-old Shirley Temple wins instant fame after starring in Stand up and Cheer
The US military government is finally withdrawn from Haiti after nineteen years
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers have one of their greatest successes dancing in their fourth film together, Top Hat
The German composer Kurt Weill moves to New York, where he writes Broadway musicals
Frank Lloyd directs Charles Laughton and Clark Gable in a dramatic account of the famous mutiny on the Bounty
George Balanchine's new company, American Ballet, has its first brief season in New York
In Frontier the Japanese-US sculptor Isamu Noguchi designs the first of his many sets for Martha Graham ballets
Frank Lloyd Wright designs Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pennsylvania, for Edgar Kaufmann
