The United States Supreme Court building, designed by Cass Gilbert, was
completed.
Howard
Johnson opened his first roadside restaurant in Boston,
Massachusetts.
Katherine Hepburn wore Muriel King’s clothing in Sylvia Scarlet.
Popular
movies included: Anna Karenina starring Greta
Garbo, The
Bride of Frankenstein directed by James
Whale and
starring Elsa Lanchester and Boris Karloff, David Copperfield
starring Freddie
Bartholomew, W.C. Fields and Lionel Barrymore, Gold Diggers of
1935
directed by Busby Berkeley and starring Dick Powell, The Man on the
Flying
Trapeze
starring W.C. Fields, Mississippi starring Bing
Crosby,
W.C. Fields, Bing Crosby and Joan Bennett with music by Rodgers and
Hart,
Mutiny on the Bounty starring Clark
Gable, and Top Hat
starring
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers with music by Irving Berlin.
Fiction included Nelson Algren’s Somebody in Boots, James T.
Farrell’s Judgment Day, Tom Kromer’s Waiting for Nothing,
Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here, Horace McCoy’s They
Shoot Horses, Don’t
They? John Steinbeck’s Tortilla Flat, Clara Weatherwax’s Marching!
Marching!, and Thomas Wolfe’s Of Time and the River and From
Death to Morning.
Popular music included: “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write
Myself a Letter” by Fred E. Ahlert and lyrics by Joe Young, “I’m in the
Mood For Love” by Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields, “In a Sentimental
Mood” by Duke Ellington, “(Lookie, Lookie, Lookie) Here Comes Cookie”
by Mack Gordon,
“Moon Over Miami” by Joe Burke and Edgar Leslie, “The Music Goes Round
and
Round” by Edward Farley and Michael Riley, lyrics by “Red” Hodgson,
“She’s
Latin from Manhattan” by Al Dubina and Harry Warren, “When I Grow Too
Old
To Dream” by Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II.
The WPA was created.
Bingo began to be played in movie houses.
The ten-cent
chain letter fad began.
Twenty
million Monopoly sets were sold in one week.
The reconstruction of colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, was completed.
The Shenandoah National Park was established.
Kruger Beer of Newton, New Jersey introduced its first canned beer.
Eastman Kodak
introduced Kodachrome for sixteen-millimeter movie
cameras.
Former alcoholics Bill Wilson and Dr. Robert H. Smith founded
Alcoholics Anonymous.
Alcatraz
became a prison.
April: The radio
show Your Hit
Parade premiered.
July 5: The National Labor Relations
Act outlined workers’ rights to bargain for fair labor practices.
August 15: Pilot Wiley
Post and Will
Rogers were killed in a plane crash.
August 21: Benny Goodman opened the
Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles.
October 10: Porgy and
Bess by George
and Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward opened at the Alvin Theater.
December 3: The nation’s first
public-housing project opened on New York’s Lower East Side.
December 5: The National Council of
Negro Women began advocating civil rights.