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Los Angeles Herald December 1st – 3rd 1915 Houdini and Hardeen, playing in Los Angeles
December 1915 Houdini at the Orpheum and Hardeen at Pantages in Los Angeles. The brothers portrayed themselves as rivals for publicity but in this case the jig is up! In the article below the writer reveals that they are actually brothers working together. In the advertisements below Pantages plays up Hardeen’s challenge escapes listing that… Read more
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The Daily Palo Alto November 18, 1915 Houdini at the Orpheum, Hardeen at Pantages
In November 1915 Houdini was on the Orpheum circuit performing the Water Torture Cell or the “Upside Down” as he called it. By day he created publicity by performing his famous Straitjacket escape while suspended from a high building above a swarming crowd of onlookers below on the street. Hardeen was touring for Pantages. The… Read more
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Houdini & Hardeen 