Houdini’s Magic (Performing Magic – Milestone) conjured the run of his life when the six-year-old dark bay horse put it across Grade One rivals at a daunting 24-1 in the nine-furlong (1,800m) The ...

Harry Houdini was known for escaping from handcuffs, straitjackets and water tanks, but his greatest trick was escaping from the dustbin of history. After all, how many popular performers can you name ...

“Houdini: Art and Magic,” the illuminating show newly arrived at Los Angeles’ Skirball Cultural Center from the Jewish Museum in New York, demystifies a magician and escape artist so spectacular he ...

In 1917, 80,000 people pressed into the street in Providence, R.I., to watch Harry Houdini dangle upside down from the roof of a newspaper office building and wriggle out of a straitjacket. A master ...