Word: houdini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearby cinema houses fingered the rosy sky over Hollywood Boulevard. On the hotel roof, ignoring a milling throng of spiritualists, magicians, newshawks, cameramen and gawpers, a plump, white-haired woman walked down a length of red plush carpet on the arm of a bearded man. Beatrice Wilhelmina Rahner Houdini and her business manager, Magician Edward Saint, seated themselves on thronelike chairs before a red-draped table. On the table lay a silver bell, a trumpet, a pair of handcuffs, a small shrine containing a photograph of the late Harry Houdini. This Halloween was the tenth anniversary of Harry Houdini...
...Harry Houdini (Ehrich Weiss), escape artist extraordinary and implacable foe of spiritualistic fakers, promised his wife that if it were possible for him after death to communicate with her on Earth, he would do so. A code message was agreed on. In New York, a medium named Arthur Ford said that Houdini's spirit had sent him these words: ROSABELLE ANSWER TELL PRAY ANSWER LOOK TELL ANSWER ANSWER TELL. Mrs. Houdini signed a statement that this was in her husband's code, but later seemed un convinced that she had actually heard from the dead magician. Last month...
...dark hotel roof last week bearded Manager Saint appealed for quiet. The music of Pomp and Circumstance poured from a loudspeaker. By the light of a small red lamp, Manager Saint read his speech: ". . . the ten-year vigil of the silver-haired widow of Harry Houdini to night comes to its final and logical conclusion with this last attempt to pierce the Great Void. . . ." The magician explained that the spirit of Houdini might, if it could, ring the bell, unlock the handcuffs, speak a code message through the trumpet...
Saint: The world is waiting, Harry, the entire world and your friends in the glamorous Hollywood you loved so much. All are waiting. Please speak, Harry. . . . Call to him, Madam Houdini, call...
...Houdini: Houdini, we've waited so long. Houdini, please...