Before the silver screen, there was vaudeville—the vibrant form of ... in San Diego’s entertainment scene when magician Harry Houdini arrived in 1907. Fresh off his growing fame as “The ...

The famed escapologist had a reputation for death-defying stunts. But his rise to fame and sudden death both came with some ...

When vaudeville impresario Martin Beck "discovered" a struggling Harry Houdini in 1899, it was Houdini's ability to escape from handcuffs which caught his attention. Although Houdini was hardly ...

In the autumn of 1925, in what turned out to be his last American tour (he died a year later), Houdini would start ... in the stage paper Variety for a vaudeville dancer to join a Broadway show ...

Harry Houdini, full-length portrait ... drawing crowds for both vaudeville acts and the newest films of the era. Though it is not well-documented which specific vaudeville acts performed there ...