Before the silver screen, there was vaudeville—the vibrant form of ... in San Diego’s entertainment scene when magician Harry Houdini arrived in 1907. Fresh off his growing fame as “The ...

Houdini soon brought his show to Ireland and performed in Cork’s Opera House, some evidence also exists of him performing in ...

When vaudeville impresario Martin Beck "discovered" a struggling Harry Houdini in 1899, it was Houdini's ability to escape from handcuffs which caught his attention. Although Houdini was hardly ...