Today, I share the complete text from an August 30, 1921 newspaper clipping that appeared in The Oklahoma City Times:

That Houdini is partial to the letter of the alphabet, “H,” is evident, for in writing “The Man from Beyond,” his first special feature for his own producing organization, the author-star gave the leading character the name of Howard Hillary. It is also noticed in the second picture, Houdini in writing the story of “Haldane of the Secret Service,” again used a name beginning with the eighth letter. Those who have watched the screen career of Houdini will recall that in his two pictures , “The Grim Game” and “Terror Island,” Houdini used the letter “H.” The name of the central figure in the first was Harvey Hanford, and in the second, the name of the hero was Harry Harper. Houdini furnished the plots for these two pictures , giving the characters their names. Houdini says that the selection of names for his characters is a psychic process and that when he writes his material it is as if his hand is guided in writing the letter “H” for his principal character.

I love that all 4 special features with HH characters are highlighted, as well as the fact that Houdini wrote and furnished plots for them. The Grim Game and Terror Island were written in collaboration with Arthur B. Reeve and John W. Grey. That said, not sure I buy his psychic process for writing the letter “H” for his principal character, lol.