The original Houdini advertisement was created by an unknown artist, was first used in 1908. His show was an immediate hit and his salary rose to an incredible $300 a week (equivalent to a £9000 in 2019). Following a demonstration of escape from handcuffs at Scotland Yard, in London and baffling the police so effectively that he he was booked at the Alhambra for six months. In 1900, Beck arranged for Houdini to tour Europe. Within months, he was performing at the top vaudeville houses in the country. In 1899, impressed by Houdini’s handcuffs act, his manager advised him to concentrate on escape acts and booked him on the Orpheum vaudeville circuit. He is now regarded as the greatest escape artist in history. Ehrich Weiss, aka, Harry Houdini started his career in magic and although even now is popularly considered to be a magician, was to some professional magicians as a competent but not particularly skilled sleight-of-hand artist, lacking the grace and finesse required to achieve excellence in that craft.
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