![]() My interest, as I explained to you, is solely that of insuring that the picture is correct. ![]() The original can is for sale at this date. ![]() Of great interest in the same issue is the picture of Houdini on page 22 in the Milk Can Escape pictured in full detail on page 1 of the book. This was the Milk Can Escape that Houdini made famous. Incidentally on page 23 is an accurate photograph of the original “overboard box.” This was the so-called “break away”which for many years was used by both Houdini and Hardeen. You may recall that I mentioned the “Book of Life.” On pages 20 and 21 is the story of this illusion, and on page 35 is the complete working diagram showing the girl inside of the binding of the “Book.” Houdini and Hardeen had discussed this illusion as early as 1920 but nothing was done with it until a few months before Hardeen’s death, when we took the original working diagram from Houdini’s confidential books (found in a trunk at Hardeen’s home) and all of us doped out that which you see here. On is the story of the Milk Can which I referred. You will find on page 8 a copy of the only picture made with Hardeen and Houdini in an early model Winton motor car. It was very difficult to find a copy which was not defaced too much. I am sorry that I did not get this issue of Conjurors’ Magazine off to you earlier. ![]() Proskauer (Theo Hardeen’s closest friend, past publisher of Conjurors Magazine and co-founder of Magicians Guild) to Mr. Below is the text from a letter dated from Julien J. While looking through the production 11495 department records ( In Search of the Lost Plane to Plane Transfer) at the Margaret Herrick Library Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, I came across some very interesting correspondence WRT to Paramount trying to locate some original Houdini material for use in the 1953 movie starring Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. ![]()
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