The photo postcard, showing Harry Houdini and his wife, Bess, didn’t have the heft of some of the other items in Saturday’s Houdini auction in Chicago. There were one-of-a-kind stage props, scrapbooks ...

It took Nino Cruz just two minutes Sunday afternoon to replicate Harry Houdini’s straitjacket escape while suspended two stories high in a cherry picker. Cruz, 32, of Lakemoor, performed the daring ...

-- Sunday attendees at the 43rd Annual National Shrimp Festival were treated to some old-school street entertainment, as street performer Nicktorious performed a Harry Houdini-esque escape from a ...

Grand Rapids residents gathered at Monroe and Ionia to witness the legendary escape artist free himself from restraints.

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Ehrich Weiss (Harry Houdini) born to Rabbi Mayer Samuel Weiss and his wife Cecelia on March 24 in Budapest, Hungary. At age nine, Ehrich and some neighborhood friends establish a five-cent circus.