Meanwhile, he might be backstage reading a newspaper waiting for the anticipation to build.” Women would pass out thinking he was dead or dying or drowning in there. So, people were on the edge of their seats. “This was of course before TV, before internet, before special effects. “He’d make the audience wait as long as an hour,” Hardeen said. With his feet manacled, Houdini is placed head down, in full view of the audience. In this trick, Houdini escapes a contraption resembling a fish tank filled with water. Houdini’s water torture cell stunt was the greatest and most sensational of all his escapes. … he did the ‘water torture cell’ everywhere.” “That’s what Lee (Terbosic) does,” Hardeen said. He is a working magician, the only job he’s ever had since he was 13 years old, who is in the process of creating a magic conservatory or a theater in Pittsburgh, Terbosic’s hometown, said Hardeen. We built our interpretation of Houdini’s apparatus, such as the ‘(Chinese) Water Torture Cell,’ the ‘bullet catch,’ … and ‘buried alive.’” Terbosic was the magician for the show. “(Wolf) was the master stunt-builder (and blast master). “And my co-hosts are Steve Wolf and (Terbosic),” Hardeen said in an interview with the Lake Powell Chronicle before his flight to Austin on Thursday morning. 6, 2019, at 10 p.m., according to Hardeen, who has been traveling across the world in recent months to interview magicians and Houdini maestros for the show. “Houdini’s Last Secrets,” a four-part docuseries about Houdini’s methods is coming to the Science Channel. The crowd wasn’t “Houdini-sized,” but the crowd was still much larger than suspended straitjacket escapes these days, according to the “Wild About Harry” blog. Terbosic publicized the escape as “Houdini 100,” drawing a large crowd. 6, 2016, 100 years ago to the day, a man named Lee Terbosic, a magician and an escape artist, recreated Houdini’s stunt at the same location where Houdini successfully escaped from a straitjacket. “And he would do it all over the country and he would sell out his show in that town for the entire week before he moved to the next town,” Hardeen said about his great-uncle who he learned about when he was a teenager. Jeannero shows Houdini writhe straitjacketed while dangling upside down over a massive crowd at the intersection of Liberty Avenue and Wood Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 6, 1916, photograph taken by Pittsburgh Sun staff photographer N.M. “And of course, the newspaper’s going to announce that he’s going to do this, and they cover it.” “He would travel from town to town, go to the newspaper, hang from their flagpole in a straitjacket upside down and escape,” said local George Hardeen, Houdini’s great-nephew. PAGE – Harry Houdini was not only one of the greatest showmen, but also one of the greatest self-promoters of all time. Updated: 4 years ago / Posted George Hardeen is the famous escape artist's closest living relative.
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