A Handful of Dust[?] by Evelyn Waugh is published. In 2001, the book would be the first of three works by him named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.
... by Siegmund Lubin[?] (a remake of the 1903 classic...)
The giant French film company Pathé Freres[?] opens offices in Brussels, Belgium, New York City and Moscow ...