January 9 – The first issue of Look magazine goes on sale in the United States.
January 19 – BBC Television broadcasts The Underground Murder Mystery by J. Bissell Thomas from London, the first play to be written for television.[1]
May 14 – BBC Television broadcasts a 30-minute excerpt of Twelfth Night, the first known television broadcast of a Shakespeare piece. The cast includes Peggy Ashcroft and Greer Garson.
The American academic librarian Randolph Greenfield Adams writes a controversial Library Quarterly essay, "Librarians as Enemies of Books", complaining of librarians downgrading books and scholarship in favor of other tasks.[6][7]
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^The Book of Golden Discs. Barrie & Jenkins. 1978. p. 248. ISBN 978-0-214-20480-7.
^Brazilian Literature: 1880-1920: Naturalism, realism-Parnassianism, symbolism. Georgetown University Press. 1974. p. 50.
^T. H. White (May 1984). Letters to a Friend. Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-425-06816-8.
^Pan American Union (1937). Bulletin of the Pan American Union. The Union. p. 588.
^Seán Ó Criomhthain (1993). A Day in Our Life. Oxford University Press. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-19-283119-4.
^Lansing Bartlett Bloom; Paul A. F. Walter (1979). New Mexico Historical Review. University of New Mexico. pp. 127–128.
^S. T. Joshi (1996). H.P. Lovecraft: A Life. Necronomicon Press. p. 631. ISBN 978-0-940884-88-5.
^Frank Northen Magill (1985). Critical Survey of Drama: Authors A-Z. Salem Press. p. 506. ISBN 978-0-89356-377-6.
^"Frederic T. Cooper; Writer Educator." New York Times. 21 May 1937: 21.
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^Ivor Gurney; Edmund Blunden; Leonard Clark (1973). Poems of Ivor Gurney, 1890-1937. Chatto and Windus. p. 21. ISBN 9780701119003.
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