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A Bejazzed World

From “Aimee Semple McPherson,” which appeared in the December 1927 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 174-year archive—is available online at harpers.org/archive. There is a…

How I got into show business

by Sammy Davis, Jane Boyar, Burt Boyar,

Stranded in Kansas City

by Gypsy Rose Lee,

Or, a fate worse than vaudeville (first of two articles)

Out front

by Robert Benchley,

Those tempermental audiences

Editor’s drawer

Drawn by P.D. Johnson,

Editor’s easy chair

by William Dean Howells,

The Royal Danish Theatre

by William Archer,

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