When vaudeville impresario Martin Beck "discovered" a struggling Harry Houdini in ... Although Houdini was hardly the first or only performer to do handcuff escapes, he would take the act to ...

Magician John Henry Anderson died in 1874, the same year Harry Houdini was born - yet despite the two never meeting, Anderson ...

SPRINGFIELD — Seventy-two-year-old Thomas Gentile traces the roots of Springfield’s Society of American Magicians, Assembly 17, all the way back to Harry Houdini. “We became chartered as an ...