HOW HOUDINI DID IT

Shannon News, 18 March 1927, Page 4

HOW HOUDINI DID IT

’■ ' ' ♦ ; ..... MASTER MAGICIAN’S SECRETS. FIVE HUNDRED LUCKY PEOPLE. One of the most remarkable books that the world has ever .seen is now being prepared for publication. : This is no less than a.volume containing the secretswhich Houdini; the greatest of modern magicians, kept so well during his lifetime. To one man only were they ever divulged—Mr. Will Goldston, the celebrated illusionist, and it is under his guidance that this wonderful volume will be; Issued. * : : Only 500 copies are to be circulated, and each purchaser of the book will have to take a pledge that never in any circumstances whatever, - will he <3i.minutest of its: mysteries to any other person. Each book is to be provided with a patent lock, the key of which must never leave the owner’s possession. Not even the purchaser’s wife may lift the veil of mystery which shrouds its contents.

Houdini- was the inventor of four famous tricks that puzzled the wisest men of the world and left every investigator in a state of complete bewilderment. All these will be explained iir. the locked book. They are: the escape from a packing-case in sight of- the people on the stage; the escape from a sack, in which the performer is sewn, without breaking one Of the stitches; the escape from a strait-jacket while suspended from a pole in mid-air; and the escape from a' sealed milk-churn. These are not ordinary illusions performed with the aid ,of lighting and mirrors, but feats accomplished under test conditions.

* Since there are over a thousand professional magicians in the. world and tens of thousands of enthusiastic ama. teur conjurers, the demand for this book has been enormous. Everyone Interested in magic is anxious, to .obtain a copy, and there will be much heartburning when the allotment arrangements are made known.