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—— ON THIS DAY ——
OCTOBER 31, 1926
Detroit, Michigan, USA
100 years ago
Harry Houdini, the Hungarian-born American magician and escape artist, who died of peritonitis at Grace Hospital in Detroit on October 31, 1926.
Harry Houdini died at 1:26 in the afternoon on Sunday, October 31, 1926, in room 401 of Grace Hospital in Detroit. The cause was peritonitis from a ruptured appendix. A week earlier, with a temperature of 104 degrees and a diagnosis of acute appendicitis, he had refused to go to the hospital until he had given his scheduled performance at the Garrick Theater. He got through the show, collapsed, and was operated on the next day. It was already too late. His last reported words, to his brother, were that he was tired of fighting.
The famous story of his death concerns a punch. On October 22, in his dressing room at the Princess Theatre in Montreal, a McGill University student named J. Gordon Whitehead asked whether it was true that Houdini could withstand any blow to the stomach, and then struck him several times before the magician, who was reclining on a couch with a broken ankle, had braced himself. Houdini was in pain from that moment. Doctors today doubt that a blow can cause appendicitis, and it is likely the punches masked an illness already under way, leading him to ignore it. His insurance company accepted the dressing room incident as the cause and paid double for accidental death.
—— MARQUEE EVENT ——
The Chinese Water Torture Cell, the escape Houdini introduced in 1912, in which he was locked upside down by the ankles in a glass-fronted tank of water. Contrary to a popular film, he did not die performing it.
He was born Erik Weisz in Budapest on March 24, 1874, the son of a rabbi, and brought to Appleton, Wisconsin, as a small child. He later claimed Appleton as his birthplace. He took his stage name from the French conjurer Jean-Eugene Robert-Houdin and spent years scraping a living in dime museums and traveling circuses with his wife, Bess, as his assistant. His break came in 1899, when a vaudeville manager told him to drop the card tricks and concentrate on escapes. Billed as the Handcuff King, he toured Europe challenging police forces to restrain him, and came home a star. As imitators multiplied, he raised the stakes: the padlocked Milk Can in 1908, the Water Torture Cell in 1912, and straitjacket escapes performed dangling by his ankles from tall buildings above crowds that stopped traffic.
None of it was supernatural, and he said so. His methods combined deep technical knowledge of locks, remarkable physical strength and flexibility, concealed picks and keys, and tireless rehearsal. He was also a pioneer aviator, a film actor and producer, a collector of one of the great libraries on magic, and a relentless self-promoter who understood newspapers better than most editors.
After his adored mother died in 1913, Houdini visited spirit mediums hoping to reach her, and recognized the tricks of his own trade being used on the grieving. He turned the last years of his life into a crusade. He attended seances in disguise, reproduced the mediums' effects on stage, served on a Scientific American committee that investigated claims of psychic powers, and testified before Congress in 1926. The campaign cost him his friendship with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes and a devout spiritualist. Houdini and Bess agreed on a secret code that would prove a message from beyond was genuine. She held a seance every Halloween for ten years. After the last, on the roof of a Hollywood hotel in 1936, she put out the candle she had kept burning beside his photograph, remarking that ten years was long enough to wait for any man.
—— WHY THIS MATTERS ——
Houdini remains the most famous magician who ever lived. A century after his death his name is still shorthand for an impossible escape. He turned a minor specialty into a worldwide sensation and set the template for the modern celebrity stunt performer.
He was a founder of modern skepticism. His campaign against fraudulent mediums, using a performer's expertise to expose deception, established a tradition carried on by later magicians and scientific investigators of paranormal claims.
His life is a classic American immigrant story. The rabbi's son from Budapest who grew up poor in the Midwest remade himself through relentless work and publicity into one of the best-known people on Earth, and shaped his own legend so well that it has outlived him by a hundred years.
—— THE TAKEAWAY ——
On Halloween in 1926, exactly one hundred years ago, the man who had escaped from handcuffs, prison cells, and a locked tank of water could not escape a burst appendix he had been too stubborn to treat. He had promised his wife a sign from the other side if such a thing were possible. She waited ten years and heard nothing, which is what he would have predicted.
—— QUOTE OF THE DAY ——
“My brain is the key that sets me free.”
— Attributed to Harry Houdini
—— OUR QUIZ OF THE DAY ——
How much do you know about Harry Houdini, his greatest escapes, his crusade against fraudulent mediums, the dressing room punch in Montreal, and the Halloween seances held after his death?
