Today, starts a series of posts, where I share an interview that Pictures and Picturgoer magazine did with Harry Houdini:

“WILL you step this way, please?” The call-boy of a popular London music-hall beckoned to PICTUR ES representative, and hurried along endless corridors to a dressing room where reposed the man whose name is a household word the world over—Harry Houdini—the Handcuff King. Repose may seem an inadequate term to use in connection with this live, active and almost restless personality, but it is accurate. Houdini works hard, plays hard, and rests hard.

We talked of many things; of life and hopes and ambitions, of business and of romance.

Yes, romance, too, for Houdini has had a great romance in his life. There is a Mrs. Harry Houdini, who shares all his joys and his sorrows, his triumphs and his failures, and to whom he has many times turned in his career for the sympathy and relief that has helped him to “carry on”—even through the darkest shadows. Houdini confessed to us that he was still in love with his wife, and he is happy in the thought.”

Future posts will cover:

• His future film plans.
• His pet superstition.
• His greatest happiness.
• His fertile brain.
• His pleasure in films.

Source:

• Picture and Picturegoers March 6, 1920