![]() ![]() His hair was parted down the middle and he wore a grave expression on his face. Houdini was handcuffed with his hands in front of him. The can had already been poked, prodded and turned upside down to prove to the audience that there was no hole beneath the stage. Houdini was about to do something that looked like a really bad idea. The great master of illusion stepped inside of an over-size milk can, sloshing gallons of water on to the stage. Louis and Harry Houdini was about to debut his first theatrical performance. Magician Harry Houdini’s Fox Valley legacy - WeAreGreenBay.It was January 27, 1908, at the Columbia Theater in St.Chicago auction house opening bids for items connected to Harry Houdini - FOX 32 Chicago.Was Harry Houdini Really Killed By A Punch To The Stomach? - All That's Interesting.Exhibit celebrating the legacy of illusionist Harry Houdini includes a collector's 'crown jewel' - Los Angeles Times.31, 1926, escape artist Harry Houdini shackled eternally by Grim Reaper - Fox News ‘Houdini,’ With Adrien Brody, on the History Channel.The Musical ‘Houdini’ Travels a Bumpy Path.Overlooked No More: Rose Mackenberg, Houdini’s Secret ‘Ghost-Buster’.A Mysterious Autograph Hound’s Book Is Up for Auction.The Real Lives of Early 20th-Century Celebrities, as Depicted in ‘Ragtime’.The Unusual Friendship Between Houdini and Ira Davenport.The Strange Phenomenon of Photographing Ghosts.Charles Dickens: The Amateur Conjurer Corrected.Another Doug Henning Anniversary, This time #23.A Visit With a Houdini Collector & Magic Historian.The Magic Detective T-Shirt Can Be Yours.Discover Houdini the Mason online event.New York Public Library Digital Collections.Blogcast #8: Harry Houdini’s Stamford Home.Blogcast #9: Harry Haudyni, German Houdini Imitator.When Harry Met Larry: Was this man Houdini’s assistant?.*Source: Schenectady Gazette, February 5, 1943 ![]() To listen to the 1936 seance, please visit my Houdini YouTube channel or play the embedded video below. No one has been able to prove there is a hereafter.” * She died exactly one week later. ![]() “I would like very much to believe that I was again to see Harry and my mother,” she said. On February 4, 1943, she told the Associated Press she was doubtful about any form of life after death. She restated this belief many times in the years that followed. “It is now my personal and positive belief that spirit communication, in any form, is impossible.” “I do not believe that Houdini can come back to me or to anyone,” said Bess in her closing statements after the seance. So for 10 years following the iconic escapologist’s death, Bess held annual seances, the final of which took place on the rooftop of the Knickerbocker Hotel in Los Angeles, October 31, 1936, 8:30 p.m. If contact wasn’t made within 10 years, the pact would be broken. Long before Harry Houdini died on Halloween (89 years ago this Saturday), he and his wife, Bess, purportedly made a pact that the first to die would try to contact the survivor from “the great beyond,” as some people put it. Knickerbocker Hotel, Los Angeles, 1938 (Photo: Mushet Photography, Security Pacific National Bank Collection/ Los Angeles Public Library) ![]()
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