“Smiley” Smilovitch, who made a sketch of the famous magician. Wikimedia Commons Houdini prepares to escape from handcuffs - and a box thrown overboard a ship - in 1912.Īfter the lecture, he schmoozed with students and faculty, among them Samuel J. There he made appearances at the Princess Theater and held a lecture concerning spirit fraud at McGill University. He managed to push through the next several appearances against doctor’s orders and then traveled to Montreal. On October 11, Houdini broke his ankle while performing Water Torture Cell escape trick in Albany, New York. But when he toured again that autumn, everything seemed to go wrong. He toured the country in the early part of the year, performing escapes and enjoying his decades-old fame. In 1926 at age 52, Harry Houdini was at the top of his game. Houdini’s theatrics and charismatic persona seemed to be made for the burgeoning revolution of media in the early 20th century. He was allowed two minutes to escape, which he invariably did to the delight of audiences.
His most famous escape was the “Chinese Water Torture Cell” in which an upside-down, suspended Houdini is lowered into then locked into a tank of water. Houdini became known as the “handcuff king” and marveled audiences worldwide with being able to escape from almost anything.
He changed his name to Harry Houdini in honor of the famous French magician, Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin. Weisz started his career with stunts early, performing trapeze at age nine before beginning a Vaudeville career in magic in 1891. Harry Houdini was born on Maas Erik Weisz in Budapest, Hungary and immigrated to the United States in 1878. Wikimedia Commons Harry Houdini performing the “Chinese Water Torture Cell” escape.
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