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• In Germany, Houdini wanted to stage a stunt by jumping, roped and chained, off a boat into the river. The police refused permission— but he did it anyway. As he pulled himself out of the river and walked up the riverbank, he was arrested. The only thing the cops could charge him with was walking on the grass. The story made the papers all over the country.

• In 1899, the head of the Chicago police challenged Houdini to escape from his special handcuffs. Houdini agreed, then struggled for over an hour as the audience jeered. The cuffs had to be cut off— and only after the theater had emptied did the cop admit that he had tampered with the cuffs, dropping in a lead slug so that it would be jammed. When the trick was revealed, the local newspaper ran the story and Houdini raked in free publicity. • Houdini became famous for escaping from straightjackets while hanging upsidedown from his feet over public streets. Maximum publicity was ensured because he sought out the newspapers in each town and offered to do the stunt while hanging from their roof. He made the front page in every town he played. • Singer Sarah Bernhardt was honored at a reception. There, she was presented with a bronze bust of herself. However, no one had paid the bill for the bust. When the $350 bill was sent to her, she promptly returned the bust to the maker. Houdini stepped in and paid the bill. Within a few days his gesture had been covered in no less than 3,756 newspapers. A reporter estimated that if Houdini had bought that much newspaper space outright, it would have cost $56,340. • On his first trip to Europe, Houdini hired seven bald men to sit in a row on the pavement next to a popular cafe. At regular intervals, the seven men would simultaneously remove their hats and nod their heads forward. Each man had one letter written on his bald head, and together they spelled “Houdini.” Cont'd next page! Houdini was bound and determined and look where that got him.

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• Another pile of free publicity resulted when a magician named The Great Cirnoc interrupted one of Houdini’s performances with loud protests that he, the Great Cirnoc, was the true handcuff king. Houdini invited him on stage to prove himself by escaping from some special cuffs. The Great Cirnoc first insisted that Houdini demonstrate that it was possible to do (which he did, in the privacy of his cabinet, using a secret key). The Great Cirnoc then struggled to release himself from the same cuffs but found it impossible to do so. He was hooted off stage and the papers were full of the story the next day. • One of his most popular feats was the Great Disappearing Elephant act. During the war, a lady asked him why he didn’t revive the stunt. He answered that President Hoover had ruled that elephants, as well as other resources, needed to be conserved. “I made two disappear a day, that is twelve a week. Mr. Hoover said that I was exhausting the elephant supply of the world.”

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