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== Carriera ==
Harshbarger ha iniziato la sua carriera al Century Lyceum Bureau di Chicago, prenotandoingaggiando docenti e [[intrattenitore|intrattenitori]] in piccole città dell'Illinois e dell'[[Indiana.]]<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=XWnlAAAAMAAJ&lpg=RA5-PA26&dq=Dema%20Harshbarger&pg=RA5-PA26#v=onepage&q=Dema%20Harshbarger&f=false "She Made $75 Her First Week in Booking Field"] ''Lyceum Magazine'' (November 1919): 26.</ref>.
Dal 1919 al 1921 lei e [[Jessie B. Hall]] gestiscono l'ufficio di Belle Arti a [[Chicago.]]<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=XWnlAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA5-PA26&lpg=RA5-PA26&dq=Dema+Harshbarger&source=bl&ots=SW9xWMHfYf&sig=iUudiZfe5Xam6mZ3QWq4C4cW4ak&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_zdnM87zbAhXhHjQIHdUDBQo4ChDoAQg7MAc#v=onepage&q=Dema%20Harshbarger&f=false "Fine Arts Bureau Expands"] ''Lyceum Magazine'' (September 1919): 43.</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=_WdFAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA2-PA26&dq=Dema%20Harshbarger&pg=PA40#v=onepage&q=Dema%20Harshbarger&f=false "Bureau of Fine Arts"] ''Music News'' (January 28, 1921): 8.</ref>. Nel 1921 lasciò Hall per diventare comproprietario di ''Harrison e Harshbarger'', un'agenzia di prenotazioni di concerti a Chicago.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=pjg_AQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA13-PA30&dq=Dema%20Harshbarger&pg=RA13-PA30#v=onepage&q=Dema%20Harshbarger&f=false "New Chicago Firm Books Fifty Concerts for Marshall"] ''Musical America'' (April 2, 1921): 30.</ref>. IlCon il loro primo cliente esclusivo era, il [[tenore]] Charles Marshall,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=_WdFAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA2-PA26&dq=Dema%20Harshbarger&pg=RA6-PA12#v=onepage&q=Dema%20Harshbarger&f=false "Harrison and Harshbarger"] ''Music News'' (March 4, 1921): 12.</ref> e hanno, contribuitocontribuirono a sviluppare il " ''Piano per l'audience organizzata "'', un modello di [[abbonamento]] per le prenotazioni di [[intrattenimento]] nelle città più piccole.<ref>James M. Doering, [https://books.google.com/books?id=EYv6DXDRuR0C&lpg=PA78&dq=Dema%20Harshbarger&pg=PA78#v=onepage&q=Dema%20Harshbarger&f=false ''The Great Orchestrator: Arthur Judson and American Arts Management''] (University of Illinois Press 2013): 78. {{ISBN|9780252094590}}</ref>. Negli anni '20, Harshbarger fu co-fondatrice (con Ward French) e presidente della ''National Civic Music Association''.<ref>Christopher Sampson, [http://www.bccivicmusic.org/about/history/ "Applauding a Movement: Eighty Years of Civic Music"] ''Brown County Civic Music Association''.</ref><ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20701795/dema_harshbarger_1925/ "Association Brings Noted Artists Here"] ''Battle Creek Enquirer'' (January 1, 1925): 98., via [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspapers.com Newspapers.com]<nowiki>{{open access]}</nowiki></ref> "Attraverso il suo servizio", ha spiegato un quotidiano californiano nel 1932, "a più di un milione e mezzo di persone nei quarantotto stati sonovengono serviti conofferte attrazioni musicali"<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20702133/dema_harshbarger_1932/ "Founder of Civic Music Service is to Visit Modesto"] ''Modesto News Herald'' (March 2, 1932): 5., via [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspapers.com Newspapers.com]</ref>.
Harshbarger vendette la sua agenzia alla [[NBC]],<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20702435/dena_harshbarger_1938/ "Stars are Not Self-Made; Credit Goes to the Audience"] ''Nevada State Journal'' (March 15, 1938): 7., via [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspapers.com Newspapers.com]</ref>, si trasferì in California, e divenne capo dell'Ufficio degli artisti della rete nel 1936. Diventò manager e addetto stampa di [[Hedda Hopper]],<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20702669/dema_harshbarger_1952/ "How Hedda Hopper Became a Columnist"] ''Chicago Tribune'' (September 26, 1952): 22., via [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspapers.com Newspapers.com]</ref> e fu spesso citata nella colonna di gossip di Hopper<ref>Hedda Hopper, [https://books.google.com/books?id=SvS1DgAAQBAJ&lpg=PT203&ots=XTtq1l16-8&dq=Dema%20Harshbarger&pg=PT203#v=onepage&q=Dema%20Harshbarger&f=false ''From Under My Hat''] (Graymalkin Media 2017). {{ISBN|9781631681189}}</ref><ref>[http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,887461-4,00.html "Cinema: The Gossipist"] ''Time'' (July 28, 1947).</ref>.
== Vita privata ==
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