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Eisenstein's film on the Russian Revolution, October, premieres in the Soviet Union.
An early classic surrealist film, Un Chien andalou (An Andalusian Dog), by Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali, and others, premieres in France.
French composer Maurice Ravel produces Bolero.
Lady Chatterley's Lover,
D. H. Lawrence's controversial novel, is privately published in Florence, Italy. The full text is unavailable in Great Britain until 1960.Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht collaborate to produce Die Dreigroschenoper (The Three-Penny Opera) in Berlin.
Evelyn Waugh's first novel, Decline and Fall, is published in London.
6 Jan.
Pope Pius XI issues an encyclical condemning "Pan-Christian unity."
11 Jan.
Thomas Hardy, one of Britain's foremost men of letters, dies at age eighty-seven.
28 Jan.
Vicente Blasco Ibanez, Spanish novelist best known for his popular 1916 work Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse), dies at age sixty-one.
2 Feb.
Transjordan signs a treaty with Britain creating an independent...
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