Friday, March 22, 2019
Houdini :: History
HoudiniKendall, spike out Houdini Master of Escape Philadelphia Macrae Smith Company, 1960, 187 pages. Ladies and gentlemen, you can see on that point isnt anything up my sleeve.1 Erich Weiss states at the beginning of the book. Even as a child Erich Weiss, a.k.a. Harry Houdini, knows that his goal in life is to become a world famous illusionist. It was difficult for Erichs family beingness pilgrims from Europe. His father worked hard, but being from Germany and not knowing English made it difficult. Promise me you will eer look after your m separate and see to it that she is never in want.2 Erich promises his father that he will look after his mother and other brothers. At the age of thirteen he decides to leave and join the circus. He journeys to Texas performing tenuous, road-side shows on the way, but just gets half-way when he turns around. Erich realizes its not his time. At the age of fifteen he moves with his family to New York. That is when he acquires his name, Harry Houdini. He dubs himself Houdini after the famous French magician Robert Houdin. In one of his small shows in New York he spills acid on the audience members dress. piffling did he know how much that would change his life. He offer to use up his mother make a new dress for Miss Beatrice Bess Rahner. It was bonk at first sight. He and Bess are married at rabbit Island the day he gives her the new dress. Often when I here of Houdini I think, and even have been told, that he died in an escape accident. That is not only untrue it is nowhere near his true means of death. During a action one night he broke an ankle. That is when it all started. He began pinch worse everyday. He had stomach pains. He waited to late. He had a ruptured addition and gangrene had set in. The doctors told him that he would not survive more that cardinal hours. However he fought for seven days. He died at the age of fifty-two on October 31, 1926, Halloween. This book was like a time machine in that it l et me see into the past. I not only got to live along with Mr. Harry Houdini, I got to visit the places he did through the words of Lace Kendall. The place I enjoyed most was New York City.
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