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30 min. He stills remains the best showman in vaudeville, Did only two tricks, the needle-threading and the escape from the Water Torture Cell, but he worked up both of them in the same finished manner that has marked all his previous efforts. Is just as big a hit. Held the audience as tensely interested as the first time he appeared as this house. The Water Cell escape trick is the showiest that Houdini has ever presented.
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University of Iowa, Keith-Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 11 May 1914-1 July 1915