When vaudeville impresario Martin Beck "discovered" a struggling Harry Houdini in 1899, it was Houdini's ability to escape from handcuffs which caught his attention. Although Houdini was hardly the ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The famed magician and illusionist Harry Houdini will be honored at Jaffrey’s Park ...
SALT LAKE CITY — Once upon a time, Harry Houdini, the famed magician and escape artist, hung upside down from a downtown building in Salt Lake City. Houdini started his career in entertainment at an ...
The water torture cell escape was arguably Houdini’s most memorable stunt. So much so that many people wrongly assume it killed him–a myth invented by the 1953 movie about his life, starring Tony ...