by Sheridan | Jan 21, 2018 | Deaths
HOW HOUDINI DIED. Manager Declares Illness Was Caused by Blow Though, according to the doctors who operated upon him, the death of Harry Houdini, the famous magician, was due to peritonitis supervening upon appendicitis, his manager, Mr. Stuckel, blames a student for...
by Sheridan | Mar 13, 2014 | Articles By Magicians
My Secret Power – By Houdini I have read Mr. Gow’s article about myself, and am naturally interested in his point of view, having made a study both of conjuring and what is known as spiritualism. He tells me he knows very little about conjuring in itself, and he...
by Sheridan | Jan 28, 2013 | Deaths
THE “HANDCUFF KING” INTERESTING STORIES HOUDINI’S BIG LIFT IN BRADFORD. News of the death in America of Harry Houdini, the famous “Handcuff King” and one of the greatest of modern magicians, will be received with regret by many Bradfordians, for it was at Bradford...
by Sheridan | Jan 17, 2013 | Articles By Magicians
Do I know FRAGMENTS? Course I do. Sure I’m a reg’lar fellah. But I’m not “English” No, nor Scandinavian either. I’m just an honest-to-goodness American, born way up in Appleton, Wisconsin of rich but honest parents. “Perhaps it is because I’ve worked here for such a...
by Sheridan | Oct 13, 2011 | Articles By Magicians
Houdini- The Mystery-Man By David Gow Editor of “Light” “Some people say, Mr Houdini,” I remarked, “that some of your feats are so impossible of explanation along ordinary lines that you are really a medium and are assisted by spirits.” The great magician, with whom I...
