- Jan 9 Buddy DeSylva & Lew Brown's musical "Follow Thru" premieres in NYC
Deep Night
Feb 6 Rudy Vallee records single "Deep Night"
The New Babylon
Mar 18 Russian premiere of silent film "The New Babylon" premieres in Leningrad, written and directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg with a score by Dmitri Shostakovich
- Apr 4 Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II's operetta "The New Moon" opens at the Drury Lane Theatre in London's West End
Music History
May 2 Billie Holiday (14) and her mother are arrested for prostitution following a raid of a brothel in Harlem, New York City
- Oct 1 Spanish pianist José Iturbi makes his US debut with Leopold Stokowski and The Philadelphia Orchestra at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia
Viola Concerto
Oct 3 William Walton's Viola Concerto premieres during the Proms at the Queen's Hall, London; composer Paul Hindemith is soloist with the Henry Wood Symphony Orchestra conducted by Walton
- Oct 9 George Kaufman & Ring Lardner's musical "June Moon" premieres in NYC
- Oct 24 Rudy Vallee's "The Fleishmann's Yeast Hour" begins broadcasting on NBC radio
Wake Up And Dream
Dec 30 Cole Porter's musical "Wake Up And Dream" opens at the Selwyn Theatre, NYC; runs for 136 performances
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