Released on: 31, December 1969
, Author: Rosemary McKittrick
, Audience: Internet related
Santa Fe, Feb. 29, 2008--It was the greatest trunk mystery theworld had ever seen. That s what the advertising handbill called it.
The Houdini s Original Introducers of Metamorphosis. Exchanging Places in 3Seconds, the poster said.
At the top Harry Houdini s vignette could be seen with the words Harry the King ofHandcuffs underneath. In the bottom right was a vignette of his assistant and wifeBess and the words Beatrice Queen of Mystery.
Metamorphosis was its name.
Onstage Houdini climbed into a sack that was placed inside a large wooden traveler strunk. Audience members tied Houdini s hands behind his back as he crouched insideclose to the row of air holes along the bottom.
The sack was shut and tied securely with ropes. Finally, the lid to the trunk wasalso closed along with the stage curtain.
Now then, I shall clap my hands three times and at the third and last time I askyou to watch closely for the effect, Bess said.
She quickly closed the curtain and vanished from sight. Instantly the curtain wasreopened not by Bess but by Houdini himself.
Bess was now gone. Houdini turned toward the trunk. He reopened the lid and insideknelt Bess with her hands tied behind her back.
The switch was made. But how?
Just seeing a Houdini advertising poster in 1895 was often enough to coax people tobuy a ticket to the show. These posters were the mainstay of promotion at theturn-of-the-century.
On Oct. 25, Swann Galleries, New York, featured the poster described in TheChristian Fechner Collection of American & European Magic, Part III. The 28 by 20 inch poster sold for $60,000.
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