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 ...

Harry Houdini made two appearances in Fort Worth, one in 1916 and again in 1924. Max Faulkner Star-Telegram/Max Faulkner Harry Houdini (1874-1926) was the stage name of Ehrich Weiss, arguably 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 ...

Most experts agree that Harry Houdini had no peer when it came to elusiveness. Houdini developed many of his own escapes. They included the famous Suspended Straitjacket Escape, the Milk Can Escape ...

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 ...

The 24-year-old magician had been struggling to launch his career for years. He did card tricks. He swallowed needles. He even took a circus job as the "Wild Man of Borneo" to make ends meet. He’d ...

Police arrested an escape artist Wednesday after he led them on a fruitless underwater search for his body when he jumped into the Gulf of Mexico, clad in a straitjacket, on Halloween — the 80th ...

Houdini was famous for his straitjacket escape; now magician and Louisville native Lance Burton does it on live TV, and later puts Terry Meiners in his place. See five magicians including Lance Burton ...

Harry Houdini, the famed magician and escape artist at the turn of the 20th century, showed off his artistry to captive Cincinnati audiences and even The Enquirer. Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1874, ...

Scranton is the home of the Houdini Museum, which, as their website proclaims, is the only building dedicated to the legacy and accomplishments of the legendary magician and escape artist, Harry ...

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 ...