Word: houdini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...each to the first persons to produce an authentic psychic photograph and other psychic manifestations of physical character, under prescribed conditions, to the satisfaction of a committee consisting of Prof. William McDougall (psychologist), Dr. Daniel F. Comstock (physicist), Dr. Walter Franklin Prince and Hereward Carrington (psychic investigators), Harry Houdini (magician...
...about, and six "spirits" of departed Indian chiefs and others were evoked, which tapped the sitters with their paraphernalia. Electric connections between the medium's chair and instruments in an adjoining room, a dictograph, and clock watches proved that the medium left his chair whenever the spirits moved. Mr. Houdini, who was concealed in the room, declared the seance the rawest of fakes. " I have never encountered an honest medium," he said...
After an absence of six, or is it seven--years, Houdini is again at Keith's. During that time, he has acquired a new bathing suit and some films showing him in various exciting predicaments. All else is unchanged. It is not strange, then, that though the act was very well received, it failed to excite the tumultous applause which it formerly did in the days before the "movies" had made Houdini a household figure to millions of people. His escape from the water torture box is still thrilling, however, to those who have never seen him in action...
...chief attraction, aside from Houdini, are Meehan's Leaping hounds, late of the musical comedy stage. Some excellent animal work is included in the performance. Beeman and Grace presented in "You'll be Surprised", some very clever roller-skating, Donovan and Lee did well in "Doing Well, Thank You", and Davis and Pelle gave a remarkable exhibition of strength. The balance of the program was "filler" of the most ordinary type, and the whole was rather less satisfactory than the patrons of Keith's have come to expect...