Today starts a series of posts, where I share different Master Mystery Exhibitors’ Ads from my personal collection:
- Houdini Talks About Himself and the Master Mystery
- Ruth Stonehouse Writes Plays When Only Six
- Houdini’s Tame Eagle in “The Master Mystery”
- The Triumph of Science. A Mechanical Man with a Superhuman Brain
- By Request of Hoover Houdini Chaffs Miss Marsh
- Kidnapped into Pictures
- Handcuffs I Have Met
- Houdini Breaks Own Record in “The Master Mystery”
- Why “The Master Mystery” is a Sure Record=Breaking Serial
- $25 for Houdini’s Secret
- Houdini Made the Kaiser Apologise. The Great Mystic a Victim of Hun Arrogance
- About Publicity
This is interesting! Yes, it’s Harry talking about himself and puffing it up for all it’s worth. But the part about the trunk through the hole in the ice is a revelation! Could this be where Hollywood got the source for the Belle Island Bridge scene? Maybe.
What’s the date of this? The first telling of the frozen river story that I’ve found is 1912. But the earliest version of the story WITH A BOX is Houdini’s article “The Thrills in the Life of a Magician” in the September 1918 issue of The American Magazine. This might have even been excerpted from that? Or maybe this is a warm-up to that?
1919