One of the photos taken of Houdini while escaping from a straitjacket. This feat brought him tons of NEWS and, of course, tickets sales for his theatre shows. He typically performed this stunt right outside the theatre h...
Harry Houdini exhibit to appear at Skirball Cultural Center
Reporting from New York —— Ehrich Weiss, the Budapest-born son of an immigrant family, ran away from home at 12 to join the circus. Not the least bit interested in becoming a rabbi like his father, he wa...