Janet Flanner writes about the American dancer Isadora Duncan’s infamous life and reputation in the arts, and her return to the stage, in France.
Best New Yorker Articles of 1927
Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1927 issues.
52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: Morris Markey (17)
Most featured section: Profiles
Featured Picks
Scandal in professional baseball. The most deplorable performance of all was vouchsafed by the newspaper report ers whose duty it became to chronicle the …
Adolphe Menjoy, movie actor. Played with Charlie Chaplin in 1923 in "A Woman of Paris." Son of French restaurant keeper in Cleveland. Mentions Lubitsch, …
REPORTER AT LARGE, speaks about the N. Y. World battling against suppression of "The Captive," and against pictures in magazines of naked ladies. The …
REPORTER AT LARGE. Tells about discussion among internes in hospital. Their experiences and feelings about their jobs. Daily happenings there.
REPORTER AT LARGE about the separation trial in White Plains between Daddy Browning and his wife Peaches Heenan Browning. Judge Mack, Browning's lawyer…
REPORTER AT LARGE about billiard match between Willie Hoppe and Hagenlacher, at Hoppe's Billiard Academy.
About gambling for big money. Tells about an evening of play. Mike, proprietor has evil face. Game there straight as rule. Change their lay once a week, …
PROFILE of Al Woods who used to be regarded as the Beelzebub of the Drama. He allowed no season to pass unless he had created a disturbance and tempted the…
In Georgia they say New York can't be same with Wrigley electric sign gone. Tells about New York. Compares Times Square to Village Greens. Most of …
John H. McCooey, Democratic Leader in Kings Co. Brooklyn. He is perfect illustration of what "boss" means. Mentions Hanna, Roosevelt, Murphy. When 13 …
Autobiographical PROFILE of Elinor Wylie in verse. "She gives herself"; a poetic thought; She gives you comfort sturdy as a reed; She gives you fifty …
Jo Davidson, sculptor. Born in New York of Russian parentage. First striking piece of work, head of his mother, when he was 21, James Huneker heralded him …
Irving T. Bush conceived and built Bush Terminal. Father had been president of oil refinery in Brooklyn. Standard Oil Co. bought Bush Oil Refinery. Tells …
Tells about police department under Mr. Warren and George McLaughlin. Mentions Tammany and politics and politicians Buckner, Tuttle, Enright. McLaughlin …
Describes law offices, lawyers and what goes on there. Tells about early American laws.
Tells about circus people and circus life. Lillian Leitzel's grandmother was celebrated trapeze artist.
REPORTER AT LARGE about noted authors newspapers have hired to report on the Snyde-Gray murder case. Authors were bored and didn't know what to write …
More about the Ruth Snydar-Judd Gray trial. Mentions Mrs. Genevieve Forbes Herrick, of Chicago Tribune. Dr. John Roach Straton, Mr. Hazleton, attorney. …
REPORTER AT LARGE tells about Metropolitan Museum buying John Singer Sargent's "The Three Graces" and has revived recurrent vituperative attacks upon …
Lindbergh has been named "Lucky" and "The Flying Fool". He has made four parachute drops from planes out of control or in fog. He is twenty-five, looks …
Long article about horse racing during the Civil War days tells about races between the North and the South; famous race horses and trotters; the rivalry …
PROFILE of Samuel Rosoff, subway contractor. Tells about St. Nicholas Avenue Subway under construction. Dope about subway contracts.
Profile of Walter Hagen, who has been playing tournament golf since 1914. In this period he has won the American Open twice, the British Open twice, the …
Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, his family background, education, beliefs and the various charges he held before the Park Avenue Baptist Church. Lives and …
The writer’s 1927 short story imagines that, for authors, all press is good press—especially if the Boston police declare one’s book obscene.
REPORTER AT LARGE about the murder of Rene Michaud. Suzy Berdat, who shot and killed Michaud, had lived with him for two years. Account of the trial.
REPORTER AT LARGE about finding a pier along West Street, gaily populated. There were lights strung about the railing of its upper deck. There was a little…
The woman with an apartment to sublet. I'm sure you'll find it awfully cool and pleasant here during August. I was here all last summer myself and …
PROFILE of John McBride of the theatre ticket agency. He in interested in the art of selling. Keeps a record of sales of every clerk in his fourteen …
PROFILE of Charles Lanier Lawrence, who had unusual zeal for gas engines and motors. He invented the air-cooled motor - the Whirlwind, used by Byrd, …
REPORTER AT LARGE about troubles on the schooner "Kingsway" with a cargo of lumber bound for the Gold Coast. Earl Battice, a Negro cook, killed his wife, …
PROFILE of Joseph E. Widener. He owns one of the most complete libraries of sporting books and the finest private collection of Rembrandts in the world. In…
REPORTER AT LARGE. The story of United States customs procedure from the actual experience of a person who brought from France some Louis Quinze chairs, …
Profile of Lucius Boomer, president of the company that operates the Sherry-Netherland, the Waldorf Astoria, Sherry's and owns the Bellevue-Stratford …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the policeman Daniel Graham, his life and trial for the murder of his friend Judson Pratt, paymaster for the firm of Rhoades & Co. …
A classic short story by Dorothy Parker, in which a partygoer’s introduction to the guest of honor becomes a nervous attempt to deal with racism.
Violent attack on Al Smith in young Teddy Roosevelt Jr.'s speech during presidential election.
PROFILE of French fashion designer Paul Poiret. Born and bred in the heart of bourgeois Paris, traditionally educated in one of the capital’s old …
It is only just to say that no reference was intended to McBride's Theatre Ticket Offices, Inc., in a story appearing a week or so ago in which …
Ruth Elder - personality and attitude toward flight.
James Thurber’s humorous retelling of “A Visit from Saint Nicholas” (also known as “The Night Before Christmas”) in the style of Ernest Hemingway.
Dorothy Parker reviews the author and socialite Emily Post’s notorious guide to manners, “Etiquette.”