Film comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was arrested for the rape and murder of a young actress found unconscious in his hotel room on 5 September 1921. Arbuckle was acquitted after three trials but his career was ruined.

In 1924 George Pierce Baker was named the director of Yale University's newly established department of drama, and he laid the groundwork for a program that would later be recognized as the best theater training center in the United States.

Josephine Baker became an immediate star in La Revue Negre, Paris, in 1925.

Sculptor Gutzon Borglum abandoned work on the Lee- Jackson Confederate Memorial at Stone Mountain, Georgia, in March 1925. He shifted his attention to Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, where he commenced work on portraits of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt in 1927.

In 1921 Nadia Boulanger became composition teacher at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France.

In 1926 Constantin Brancusi...