![]() Jeremy Drouin, Senior Librarian of Special Collections, searched their electronic newspaper archive and found an advertisement for a Septemafternoon show at the Orpheum Theater where Houdini was performing his water torture act. Next I contacted the Kansas City Public Library: For days The Kansas City Post, known for sensational journalism, had trumpeted the coming event to its readers… Now we have a possible date, Wednesday, September 8, 1915. By this time he had been wriggling out of straitjackets for almost twenty years but never before while suspended upside down over a street in full view of thousands. Last but not least, Kasson ( Houdini Tarzan and The Perfect Man) mentions the following: He appears first to have executed this escape in Kansas City on September 8, 1915.Los Angeles in September 1915 is clearly an error Brandon doesn’t provide sourcing for Los Angeles or Kansas City, although Kansas City likely came from the October 1915 edition of Will Goldston’s Magazine of Magic. ![]() The same month, 5,000 saw him in Kansas City, where the tie-in was with the Kansas City Post.
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