"Inescapable" contains an 1886 letter to Mayer and Cecilia Weisz signed "Your truant son."Įrik eventually made his way to New York, where he found work as a messenger and in a necktie factory and began to seriously study magic.
But in 1882, Houdini's father, Mayer Samuel Weisz, lost his job as rabbi for a Reform Jewish congregation in Appleton, Wis.plunging his family into poverty.Īfter the family moved to Milwaukee when Erik was 8 years old, the boy sold newspapers, shined shoes and delivered groceries to put food on the table.
The Weisz family emigrated to America in 1878 when the future magician was 4 years old. "Our exhibit," London said, "takes a peek behind the curtain." In contrast, "Inescapable" devotes equal resources to documenting the hardscrabble first 26 years of the conjurer born Erik Weisz. London said that most exhibits focus on the headline-grabbing last half of Houdini's life. It's impossible to overstate the impact he's had on magic." "I've had a poster of Houdini hanging in my bedroom since I've been a teenager. "It almost seems as though my entire life had been leading up to this moment," London said. Museum visitors will learn about Houdini the adventurer (he claimed to be the first man to fly an airplane in Australia), Houdini the entrepreneur (he founded his own movie studio and directed and starred in his own films) and Houdini the inventor (he holds a patent for a diving suit developed for military use around World War I that was easily removed while underwater). The show includes one of Houdini's original brown leather straitjackets and a rare recording of the magician's voice, which was higher and lighter than might be expected from a man with such an intimidating stare. The exhibit displays about 100 artifacts - documents, photographs, his father's Bible, a set of see-through handcuffs - culled from private collections across the U.S. In celebration of the opening of the Jewish Museum of Maryland’s newest exhibit, Inescapable: The Life and Legacy of Harry Houdini, Baltimore-based entertainer and escape artist, Dai Andrews, recreates one of the international superstar’s greatest feats.
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