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and tried to visit with
the family of the late
Robert-Houdin, but
they expressed no inter-
est in meeting the
magician. Some time
later, Houdini appar-
ently grew to complete-
ly disregard the man
who had once so
inspired him. He even
wrote a book, The
Unmasking of Robert-
Houdin.
• Though he mysti-
fied many with his
wondrous tricks, even a
great illusionist like
Houdini had to eat,
like any other mortal.
When he did, two of
his favorite foods were
chicken paprika and
bread pudding.
• In 1926, a young
man went to see
Houdini perform in
Chicago. The show
included some of
Houdini's most famous
tricks, including the
Water Torture Cell,
Escape artist Harry Houdini.
when he escapes after
known as the creator of Sherlock
being chained and immersed upside-
Holmes. The friendship floundered,
down in a tank of water.
The young man's review: "It was awful however, as Conan Doyle became a firm
believer in spiritualists, even as Houdini
stuff." His name: Orson Welles.
was
working to show them as frauds.
The Water Torture Cell was the name
Not
only was Houdini's father the
by which audiences knew the trick.
head
of
a synagogue in Appleton, Wisc.,
Houdini himself just called it USD, for
Houdini's grandfather also was a rabbi.
upside-down.
• Though many magicians were popu-
• You likely know that Houdini per-
lar during the late 1800s and early
formed such feats as escaping from a
1900s, Houdini was the highest paid
Siberian prison van in Moscow, and in
performer
of his time.
London where he managed to get out of
•
Never,
during his many shows, did
supposedly escape-proof handcuffs pro-
Houdini
ever
fail an escape.
vided by Scotland Yard.
•
Though
many
magicians today have
But did you know that during
managed to replicate, and even improve
Houdini's lifetime one of his most
on Houdini's tricks, to this day they
famous escapes occurred right here in
continue to be baffled by his Vanishing
Detroit, when he jumped from the Belle
Elephant
illusion.
Isle Bridge?
First
performed
in 1918 at the
Handcuffed, he threw himself into
Hippodrome
in
New
York, it featured a
freezing water, only to emerge — com-
massive
elephant
which
was there one
pletely freed from the handcuffs — only
minute and gone the next (all without
moments later.
the help of sophisticated camera work
• When he died, Houdini willed all
available to many of today's magicians).
his tricks and paraphernalia to his broth-
How this trick worked remains a mys-
er.
• One of Houdini's longtime friends
tery Houdini truly took to his grave. El
was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, best