Word: houdini
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Dates: during 1906-1906
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...opera. Assisted by R. Nichols '05, Baird acts the chief part in an attractive fashion. The costumes are appropriate to unusual personages, the properties go a long way toward satisfying any desire for the unexpected. Striking turns and impersonations of well-known stage characters, such as Caruso or Houdini, add to the novelty...
...Harry Houdini, the expert at escaping from handcuffs and other bonds, gave an extraordinary exhibition of his strength and skill last night in the Living Room of the Union. The entertainment was through the courtesy of Mr. A. P. Keith...
Last night Mr. Houdini performed three astounding feats, of which the first was to remove five pairs of handcuffs of different makes. Under cover of a small curtained box he successively opened three pairs affixed at the same time by members of the University, then a new pair provided by Inspector J. W. Deehan of the Cambridge police force, and finally some old English manacles lent by a member of the University. It took but one minute to remove each of the first four, but the last pair, in which the keyhole was closed by an iron plug screwed...
Following this P. N. Coburn 3L. and J. McMasters tied him fast to a chair with 60 feet of stout rope. Their work of nine minutes was undone by Mr. Houdini after an exhausting strain of 12 minutes...
...performance promises to be unusually interesting as Mr. Houdini has been escaping from a variety of bonds devised by members of the audience at Keith's Theatre during the past month, and yesterday, in a bona-fide trial, made his escape from the Boston City Prison by breaking from his shackles and opening three prison doors...