Goodini Biography

American illusionist, philanthropist, actor. He became famous for tricks with shoots and liberation. Eric Weiss, who became world famous as Harry Gudini, was born on March 24 in Budapest in a Jewish family. Father - Meer Samuel Weiss, was a rabbi. Mother - Cecilia Cecilia Steiner, he had six brothers and sisters. His parents emigrated to the United States on July 3, when he was four years old.

Initially, the family settled in the town of Appleton in the state of Wisconsin, where his father received the post of rabbi of the reformist synagogue Zion Reform Jewish Congregation Reformed Jewish community of Zion. In the year they moved to New York. The family spoke Yiddish, German and Hungarian. From the age of 10, he began to perform in public with card tricks.

Later, the name Harry in honor of Harry Kellar was added to the surname. At first he toured the United States with his brother. In his early career, numbers in self -consultation from handcuffs and from water tanks prevailed. For advertising purposes, he practiced spectacular tricks that could be testified by whole crowds. For example, once he was suspended in a bag to the cornice of a skyscraper, but successfully freed.

Another time, he walked in front of many spectators through a brick wall. In the year, he was thrown off the bridge in the Thames in handcuffed into handcuffs and shackles with a kilogram ball, but a few minutes later surfaced, waving handcuffs. During the round in Europe in the years, Harry Gudini struck London with the number “The disappearance of a living elephant”, which was reproduced by him at the New York Hippodrome in the year.

In the summer of the year, in Moscow, on the open stage of the Summer Garden, Hermitage, Hudini, being locked in the prison carriage, was released from it, in front of the public. During the tour in Russia of the year, he demonstrated self -liberation from the cells of suicide bombers in Butyrskaya prison and the Peter and Paul Fortress. He performed in Washington prisons.

As the witnesses recalled, locked in the prison chamber, dressed in prison clothing, Gudini went out in two minutes, opened the doors of neighboring cameras and, for the sake of jokes, changed the places of the prisoners. Then it penetrated the dressing room and fifteen minutes after he was locked, appeared in the guard room dressed in his suit. As the tricks aged, Hudini was increasingly complicated.

Even after successful performances, he repeatedly got to the hospital. Since the year, he began to act in films. In the same year, he set the number to release the gun from the burdock in a matter of seconds before the fuse works. Interested in aviation, he acquired a biplane and made the first flight in history over Australia. There were even rumors that Gudini was connected with the American special services and Scotland Yard.

Gudini had high fees. In the 10ths, newspapers wrote that his salary is almost twice as much as that of the US president. Gudini spent huge amounts on paintings and books. He sent checks to the elderly, served gold coins to the poor, gave charity concerts in hospitals, orphanages and for prisoners in prisons. Gudini passed the Masonic dedication on July 17 in the New York box “St.

Very quickly on July 31, he was dedicated to the outcome of the apprentice, and on August 21 of the same year he became a master-mason. Harry Gudini was concerned that, under the influence of spiritualism popular in those years of spiritualism, many illusionists began to mask their tricks with the appearance of communication with otherworldly forces. Accompanied by the Constable Gudini, which was dressed in the civilian constable, began to attend spiritualistic sessions in order to expose charlatans, and noticeably succeeded in this.

The consequence was a gap with the old friend, Arthur Conan Doyle, who was a convinced adherent of spiritualism and revered Hudini for a very strong medium. The death of Harry Gudini in the year during a tour in Montreal in the dressing room to Hudini entered three students, one of whom, Gordon Whitehead, was the champion of college in boxing. He asked Gudini whether he was really able to withstand a few strong strokes in his stomach, without feeling anything.

Gudini nodded, and the student unexpectedly inflicted two or three blows to the artist. Gudini barely stopped him: “Wait, I need to prepare,” after which he strained the press. The student hit a couple of times and felt the iron abdominal press of Gudini. For several days, Harry did not pay attention to increasing pain in the abdomen. During the performance in Detroit, the illusionist fell right on the stage, and he had to be hospitalized.

Hudini was diagnosed with an appendix gap, as a result of which peritonitis developed.

Doctors predicted an imminent death, but the illusionist lasted several days, which is long for such an occasion. It is not known for exactly whether the student’s blows were the direct cause of Hudini’s death - the connection between the stupid abdominal injury and appendicitis was not detected. There is a version that Gudini did not know that he suffered from appendicitis, and took pain in his stomach for pain caused by a blow.

Perhaps, if he had not received a blow to his stomach, he would know that he had appendicitis. The student who inflicted the blows did not bear any responsibility for this.After the funeral, unconfirmed rumors appeared that his envious people poisoned the magician. Gudini’s grandson George Hardin George Hardeen insisted on the need for the exhumation of Gudini’s body, adhering to the hypotheses that his famous relative was a victim of an intentional conspiracy and was actually poisoned by poison.

Many newspapers in the first lanes specially left a place for an emergency message about the will. But neither on the indicated day, nor on the subsequent notarial office and no notary confirmed the existence of the will itself. This story was nicknamed "The Last Focus of Goidini." In the year, the Harry Gudini Prize in Russia was established in 2 million rubles, established by the Sciences Scientific and Popular Video channel for demonstrating paranormal abilities in the context of a correctly set experiment, designed to draw public attention to the problem of non-critical perception of statements about the existence of paranormal phenomena and superpowers.

Harry Gudini growth: centimeters. Bess worked on Koni Island in the song and dance group “Flower Sisters”, the younger brother of Hudini Theo, who Theodore Hardin, began to take care of her first. But she fell in love with Hudini's older brother - Harry. They got married on June 22. The couple worked for several years before Gudini became famous as the king of handcuffs.

But they and Bess continued from time to time to fulfill their branded trick of “metamorphosis” throughout his career. Bess also looked after their animal animal animals, collected dolls and sewing costumes for the evening Road show Guadini. They had no children, because Bes suffered from a disease that did not allow her to become pregnant. Harry Gudini and Bes Gudini after the death of Hudini Bess opened the tea house in New York and briefly performed vaudeville, in which she froze a man in ice.

She moved to Invud Manhattan and tried to contact Harry during sessions with the help of code, which only two knew about to make sure that the spiritual medium was not a fraudster. The code was like this: “Rosabelle - answer - tell me - pray, answer - look - say - answer, answer - say“ Rosel ” - this is the name of the song that Bess performed in his speech when they first met, and this word was also drawn on her engagement ring; The remaining words correspond to the elements of the secret spelling code that they developed to transmit information during the act of mentality, with suitable pauses between replicas.

In the 10ths, Bess moved to Hollywood, worked on a popularization of Gudini's memory with her manager and partner Edward Seynt. At the end of the failed session next to the Gudini photograph, she put out a candle that burned for ten years. Bess Gudini died of a heart attack on February 11, being in Nidls, California, on the eastern direction, following Los Angeles to New York. Her family did not allow Bess to bury it next to the deceased husband in the Mahpel cemetery in Kuins, New York, since she was raised in the faith of the Roman Catholic Church, and he was a Jew.

The most famous stunts of Harry Gudini Passing through the wall in July in New York, workers built a wall 3 meters high and 3.5 meters long on the stage, perpendicular to the audience, so that they can see both sides of the wall. The wall was erected on the carpet. Then Gudini invited the audience to knock with a hammer on her to make sure her hardness and fortress. Gudini held a position on one side of the wall, both sides were closed for a couple of seconds with a mobile rod on wheels.

Then the curtain was cleaned, and Gudini was already on the other side of the wall. The secret was in the carpet. Under it there was an oblong, narrow hole passing under the wall. There was another option - at the time of the focus, when the workers closed the curtain on both sides of the wall, Gudini quickly changed with them, crossing the second side. The disappearance of a living elephant showed this trick of Gudini only a couple of times.

He called the resonance in the Hippodrome Theater in New York on January 7th. In front of the almost spectators, Harry Gudini brought a living elephant into a huge box, after which the animal disappeared. The illusionist did not leave an accurate description of the stunt technique. Experts explain that the auditorium in the “Hippodrome” was three semicircular tiers, from which the elephant in the box was hard to see.

The number was built on a visual illusion. Gudini shot a pistol, the audience instinctively blinked, and a masking curtain instantly rose in front of the elephant, which had the same color with the back of the stage. The Chinese chamber for torture water for this trick Gudini designed a special device - a kind of aquarium made of red wood and nickelled steel frame, as well as copper details.

The width of the camera is 67 cm, the height - see it placed liters of water. The front panel was made of hardened glass a half centimeter thick. Hudini was shackled into handcuffs, the ankles were entangled with chains, and then slowly lowered into the water upside down. The camera was covered with a curtain, and soon the illusionist was free and greeted the audience.

The secret of Focus was in Hudini's ability to get out of handcuffs and fantastic possession of his own body. In addition, the camera was arranged in such a way that it formed in it an uninitiated uninitiated air pocket in which Gudini could swallow air. The liberation from the grave in Los Angeles Harry Gudini demonstrated an incredible trick: chained into handcuffs, he was buried alive in a grave at a depth of 6 feet 1.80 m, after which he got out alive and unharmed.

In the year, when trying to repeat the trick, the Englishman Anthony Britton almost died, who was saved by assistants, the illusionist lost consciousness, getting to the surface. Gudini himself also almost died.