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Houdini, Harry, 1874-1926; Magicians -- United States -- Biography
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[Illustration: Houdini on wing of plane]
[Illustration: Houdini in hat]
[Illustration: Planes colliding in air]
Starring Houdini
JESSE L. LASKY
Presents
HOUDINI
IN
"_TERROR
ISLAND_"
A Paramount-Artcraft
Picture
The most amazing under water scenes ever enacted were recorded by the
camera for "Terror Island."
[Illustration: Houdini in trap]
[Illustration: Houdini fighting]
[Illustration: Houdini hanging upside down with spears pointing at him]
Scenes from Photoplays
HOUDINI PICTURE
CORP.
Presents
HOUDINI
in
"The
Man
From
Beyond"
_Shortly to be
Released_
[Illustration: Houdini hanging on rock in surging water]
[Illustration: Staircase with water flowing down]
[Illustration: Houdini hanging over cliff]
Starring Houdini
HOUDINI PICTURE
CORP.
Presents
HOUDINI
in
"Haldane
of the
Secret
Service"
_An International
Mystery Drama
shortly to be released._
[Illustration: Houdini talking to man in busy street scene]
[Illustration: Sitting at a table]
[Illustration: Crowd watching Houdini]
Picture Plays, Confessions Album.
No. 14.--MR. HARRY HOUDINI
=1. What is your favorite theater?=
All the world is a theater to me.
=2. Which is your favorite hobby?=
Browsing in old bookstalls, seeking old dramatic items for my library.
=3. Which is your favorite pastime?=
Out door athletics and long distance swims.
=4. Which is your favorite song?=
"Auld Lang Syne."
=5. Which is your favorite sweetmeat?=
Candied fruits.
[Illustration: Mrs. HARRY HOUDINI]
=6. What is your idea of comfort?=
Seated in a large arm chair in library and hearing Mrs. Houdini call
up: "Young man your lunch is ready."
=7. Which is your unlucky day?=
Haven't any; an unfortunate incident at any time simply builds a
foundation for something better.
=8. What is your favorite motto?=
"And this, too--shall pass away."
=9. When have you felt at your worst?=
Once when sailing round the world, at a longitude of 80°, we had two
Tuesdays in one week and no Wednesday, which meant losing a Christmas,
and I was seasick at the time. It will be an awful thing to eclipse my
painful anguish.
=10. What is your pet aversion?=
The bald-headed man who says: "Ah, I remember you when I was a boy."
[Illustration: MY MOTHER]
=11. What is your greatest ambition?=
To live a life and die being worthy of the mother who bore me.
=12. What is your favorite holiday resort?=
Hollywood, California.
=13. Who is your favorite author?=
My dad.
=14. What is your idea of misery?=
Arriving in a town at midnight on a drizzly wet, foggy night, and
finding all the hotels full up.
[Illustration: Snap shot photograph of packing case containing six
hundred pounds of iron weights and Houdini, as it was dropped into New
York Bay. Houdini escaped from the box at the bottom of the bay in two
minutes and fifty-five seconds.]
[Illustration: DR. WILLIAMS ENGINEERING THE "THREAD THE NEEDLES TRICK"
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