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1924
 
    
The Marx Brothers (at this stage Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Gummo) make their Broadway debut with the show I'll Say She Is       
1924
 
    
Gracie Fields makes her name when she appears in London as Sally Perkins in the musical Mr Tower of London       
1924
 
     
Le Train Bleu brings together Bronislava Nijinska (choreography), Darius Milhaud (music), and Coco Chanel (costumes)        
1924
 
     
André Breton launches a new movement with his Manifesto of surrealism - Soluble fish        
1924
 
    
Ottorino Respighi's symphonic poem Pines of Rome has its first performance in Rome       
1924
 
   
Erich von Stroheim completes Greed, his epic silent film of ferociously competitive acquisition in turn-of-the-century San Francisco      
1924
 
     
Four Scottish Colourists (Cadell, Fergusson, Hunter, Peploe) exhibit together in Paris        
1924
 
    
7-year-old Yehudi Menuhin gives his first professional recital, playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in San Francisco       
1924
 
    
Leos Janacek's opera The Cunning Little Vixen, based on verses by Rudolf Tesnohlídek, is premiered in Brno       
1924
 
     
Giacomo Puccini dies without finishing his opera Turandot, which is subsequently completed by Franco Alfani