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 ...
GRAND RAPIDS, MI - It was just after Thanksgiving, and Grand Rapids locals were preparing to converge on Nov. 29, 1916, to watch escape artist Harry Houdini attempt to free himself while dangling from ...
Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. A master of escape, Harry Houdini drew crowds of thousands ...
When the great escape artist Harry Houdini announced plans to perform at the Orpheum Theatre in 1923, The Vancouver Sun issued a challenge to him: perform a death-defying escape in public outside the ...
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