I know politics isn't very funny these days, but here's something from a gentler time. I've seen a lot of Houdini political cartoons, but this is the only one I've seen that ties into a specific Houdini stunt. In this case, it's his Shelton Pool Test. Just goes to show how much that feat captured the public imagination.
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| Rockford Register Star, Aug 28,1926. |
The artist is actually making a second Houdini reference without knowing it. Old John Barleycorn (a reference to prohibition) is reading the temperance play, Ten Nights in a Barroom. Houdini played the lead in this play during his struggling years on more than one occasion.
This os beautiful rendered! It's a dig on Prohibition? When looking at those old political cartoons, it's hard to figure out the message. They're drawn from the scandals of their times that are now buried under the detritus of the historical records.
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