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1925
 
    
Charlie Chaplin makes The Gold Rush, involving his little tramp in the horrors of wintry Alaska       
1925
 
    
Trumpeter Louis Armstrong, in Chicago, forms the Hot Five with his wife on piano and three New Orleans musicians on trombone, clarinet and guitar       
1925
 
    
Harold Ross founds The New Yorker as a humorous weekly, and remains in charge of it until his death in 1951       
1925
 
    
Scott FitzGerald publishes his novel The Great Gatsby, set in a contemporary world of lavish indulgence underpinned by crime       
1925
 
    
DuBose Heyward publishes his first novel, Porgy, set in Charleston's Catfish Row       
1925
 
    
26-year-old Al Capone takes over the Johnny Torrio gangster organization in Chicago       
1925
 
    
House by the Railroad, by US painter Edward Hopper, introduces a new style of urban realism       
1925
 
     
The Broadway revue Garrick Gaieties is the first big success for Rodgers and Hart        
1925
 
    
Biology teacher John Scopes is prosecuted for breaking state law by teaching evolution to his class of children in Dayton, Tennessee       
1925
 
    
Film actress Greta Garbo and her director Maurits Stiller move from Sweden to Hollywood