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 MORE WORLD HISTORY 1925.  MISS AMERICA 1925... Fay Lanphier Oakland, California. Fay Lanphier was the oldest of six children, and along with her widowed mother Emily, she became the main support Of her family. They moved to Oakland, where Fay saved what little money she could and applied it to Business College. Afterward, "I did clerical work, but at the time hoped to better myself," she said. She wanted a career in films. She won the title of "Miss Santa Cruz 1924" and finished third for the 1924 Miss America title. The following year, she arrived as a favorite in Atlantic City as "Miss California" and became the first Miss America to have represented an entire state at the national finals. Upon victory, she was whisked to New York City to appear opposite Louise Brooks and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in Paramount's "The American Venus:” a thinly veiled film on the pageant. 
MEDIA HISTORY 1925 1925:1- Commercial picture facsimile radio service across the U.S. 1925:2- Der Prozess (tr. As The Trial) by Franz Kafka. 1925:3- Alban Berg's Wozzek removes tonality from opera. 1925:4- Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy. 1925:5- Transcontinental radio hook-up carries Coolidge inaugural to 24 stations. 1925:6- The Goodyear blimp floats ads through the sky. 1925:7- Expatriate American poet Ezra Pound begins his Cantos. 1925:8- John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer, a novel of life without meaning. 1925:9- Random House begins book publication. 1925:10- Western Electric creates Vitaphone, a sound-on-disc film system. 1925:11- A British radio broadcast is heard in the United States. 1925:12- From the new Soviet Union, Dmitri Shostakovich, 1st Symphony 1925:13- Harold Ross starts The New Yorker. 1925:14- Electrical recordings go on sale. 1925:15- Virginia Woolf's novel, Mrs. Dalloway. 1925:16- F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, a novel of the tragedy of success. 1925:17- The New Yorker. 1925:18- Grand Ole Opry begins in Nashville as "WSM Barn Dance." 1925:19- Thomas Mofolo's Chaka the Zulu is written in the Sotho language. 1925:20- Arrowsmith, a novel by Sinclair Lewis of a life devoted to medicine. 1925:21- Charlie Chaplin's film, The Gold Rush. 1925:22- Romani (Gypsy) writers union is founded in Soviet Union, then is suppressed. 1925:23- The first volume of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf,written in prison. 1925:24- Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin establishes film montage technique. 1925:25- George Bernard Shaw wins Nobel Prize in Literature. 1925:26- Earl Biggers introduces the fictional detective Charlie Chan. 1925:27- In London, the demonstration of a televised image. The first image: $ 1925:28- A moving image, the blades of a model windmill, is telecast. 1925:29- From France, a wide-screen film. 1925:30- Ben-Hur costs nearly $4 million, an unheard-of price to make A movie. 1925:31- The first broadcast soap opera: The Smith Family. 1925:32- John Logie Baird demonstrates the first TV system, using mechanical scanning. 1925:33- Warner Bros. starts experiments to make "talkies."
Top Songs Of 1925 1. Sweet Georgia Brown - Ben Bernie 2. Tea For Two - Marion Harris 3. Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen - Marian Anderson 4. If You Knew Susie (Like I Know Susie) 5. Charleston - Paul Whiteman 6. I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle - Bessie Smith 7. Collegiate - Fred Waring 8. When You and I Were Seventeen - John McCormack 9. The Titanic - Ernest Van Stoneman 10. All Alone - John McCormack or Al Jolson or Paul Whiteman 11. I'll See You In My Dreams - Isaham Jones & Ray Miller 12. Manhattan - Isham Jones 13. Yes Sir! That's My Baby - Gene Austin 14. Oh, How I Miss You Tonight - Ben Selvin (& Cavaliers) 15. O! Katharina - Ted Lewis 16. Remember - Isham Jones |
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