2012 was an amazing year for Harry Houdini Circumstantial Evidence (HHCE) for a number of reasons:

Got to see most of the Grim Game and its exciting escape sequences at the Margaret Herrick Library:

• The Grim Game Core Experience
• I’ve Seen Most of The Grim Game
• Forty Winks by the Star Reporter
• Stone Walls and Chains Do Not Make a Prison – For Houdini
• Over the Edge With Death Below and Imprisionment Above!
• The Bear Trap

Discovered some amazing Grim Game advertisements:

• Motion Picture News  Advertisement that includes Lobby Display photos of The Real Aeroplane used to advertise “The Grim Game”

• Cinema Chat  Advertisement that includes 5 images (298-4, 298-7, 289-21, 298-22, 298-25), 3 of which have not been published since 1920 as far as I know.

• Variety Advertisement with a unique date (9-19-1919) and page number (52)

Got to meet some Houdini icons (Subject Matter Experts) in person:

• John Cox

• Arthur Moses

• Patrick Culliton

HHCE had the most Grim Game links on Facebook:

• Houdini In The Grim Game Facebook

Got mentioned numerous times by John Cox at his Wild About Harry blog:

• Jan 01, 2012 – Is 2012 the year of The Grim Game
• Jan 14, 2012 – Link: L302-55 versus L302-60
• Jan 27, 2012 – Houdini, reincarnation, and a man named …
• Apr 29, 2012 – Grim Game plane wreck lobby display
• May 15, 2012 – Link: Houdini in Santa Paula
• May 26, 2012 – The Grim Game named best poster of 1919
• Aug 06, 2012 – Houdini on early television
• Aug 27, 2012 – The Grim Game opens on Broadway
• Nov 03, 2012 – The reports are coming in …
• Nov 03, 2012 – Report: The Official Houdini Séance 2012

Got mentioned by Kevin Connolly at his Houdini Himself blog:

• March 15, 2012 Houdini, Our Man in Norway

And last but not least, HHCE acquired a number of amazing ads, brochures, and cards from the Grim Game.

In a couple of days (i.e., January 1st, 2013), I will post plans for HHCE in 2013.

The bacon number for Houdini can be calculated by typing: “bacon number houdini” in Google.

In September, iTricks posted that Harry Houdini’s Bacon number is 4 and that the Houdini/Bacon bridge was Arthur Hoyt:

1. Harry Houdini and Arthur Hoyt appeared in The Grim Game.
2. Arthur Hoyt and Harry Holman appeared in The Meanest Gal in Town.
3. Harry Holman and Frances Lee McCain appeared in Phantom Thunderbolt.
4. Frances Lee McCain and Kevin Bacon appeared in Footloose.

Note: Author Hoyt played Dr. Tyson in The Grim Game.

Three months later, Harry Houdini’s Bacon number is still 4, but the Houdini/Bacon bridge is now Tully Marshall according to Google:

1. Harry Houdini and Tully Marshall appeared in The Grim Game.
2. Tully Marshall and Fay Wray appeared in Thunderbolt.
3. Fay Wray and Matt Dillon appeared in Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen’s.
4. Matt Dillon and Kevin Bacon appeared in Loverboy.

Note: Tully Marshall played Richard Raver in The Grim Game.

Any way you look at it, The Grim Game is the bridge between Houdini and Kevin Bacon.

I also want to give a shout out to Kevin Connolly and John Cox/iTricks for the following related Houdini/Bacon posts:

• Wild About Harry and iTricks Link: How many degrees away from Kevin Bacon is Harry Houdini?
• Houdini Himself Link: Houdini, Lincoln & Kevin Bacon