1920
The semistiff three-ply collar was introduced by John Manning Van Heusen.
Popular films included Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde starring John Barrymore,
Way Down East with Lillian Gish, The Mask of Zorro starring
Douglas Fairbanks, Pollyanna starring Mary Pickford, and The Kid
starring Charlie Chaplin.
Popular fiction and poetry included F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of
Paradise, Sinclair Lewis’s main Street, Zane Grey’s Man of
the Forest, T.S. Eliot’s Poems, Ezra Pound’s Umbra and Hugh
Selwyn Mauberley, William Carlos Williams’s Kora in Hell, Edna
St. Vincent Millay’s A Few Figs From Thistles, Carl Sanburg’s Smoke
and Steel, and E.A. Robinson’s Lancelot.
Among the hip tunes were Al Joson’s “Whispering”, “My Mammy” and “Avalon,”
“Japanese Sandman” by Nora Bayes.
The New York Societe Anonyme was founded by Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, and
Katherine Dreier.
The first American Ballet Company, the Pavley-Oukrainsky Ballet of the Chicago
Civic Opera, was established.
The Julliard Foundation was founded.
Joseph Stella painted the Brooklyn Bridge.
Thomas Hart Benton painted Portrait of Josie West.
The U.S. Census reports that the population of the United States was 105,710,
620.
January 16: The Eighteenth Amendment was
enforced, prohibiting alcohol, by The Volstead National Prohibition Act.
February 2: Beyond the Horizon by Eugene O’Neill
opened.
June 5: Congress approved The Women’s
Bureau, a federal agency to promote the welfare of women workers.
August 26: The Nineteenth Amendment was
ratified by Congress, allowing women to vote.
September: The Model L Lincoln was introduced
by Henry M. Leland.