Houdini

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30 minutes f.s. Garden set. Doing the needle trick and water torture cell. Putting them over in good shape. Wednesday noon, he performed the strait jacket stunt, suspended in midair from the top of the theatre entrance, before a crowd of 50,000 people, who completely filled the Tremont street mall of Boston Common, facing the theatre. Has some other challenges lined up for the balance of the week.
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University of Iowa, Keith Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 13 November 1916 – 21 January 1918