Houdini

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He performed a cell-escape, and the East Indian needle trick. The turn closed with a film reel of one of his escapes in San Francisco.
He "made 'em like his torture cell escape without any trouble".
Houdini "is writing the last word in his kind of self-liberating".
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Variety, vol. 42: 2. 10 March, 1916