WILD ABOUT HARRY

Here's a well-done video from HEC and historian Andrew Wanko about Houdini in St. Louis and Columbia theater manager Frank R. Tate, who...

I've seen effusive Houdini advertising before, but this ad for the independently run  Columbia Theatre in Cincinnati, Ohio, takes the c...

Continuing my scene-by-scene dissection of the 1953 biopic HOUDINI starring Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. Last time, Houdini returned to Amer...

Houdini played Washington, D.C., many times during his career. Starting in 1914, Houdini's regular Washington venue became B.F. Keith...

The great Trav S.D. is taking it upon himself to declare today, Tony Pastor's birthday, "National Vaudeville Day," and I'm...

I recently stumbled upon a remarkable Facebook page called Barbara's Vaudeville Scrapbook where the relatives of George Channing Eggles...

Okay, yesterday's post was, of course, an April Fools joke. But here's something I can share. The below recordings from YouTube ar...

This is news that I've long dreamed of being able to report. This may be the biggest news I've ever reported here on WILD ABOUT HARR...

Let's kick off 2023 with a brief look back at what Houdini was up to 100 years ago. The new year saw Houdini on the road for what would ...

Recently I stumbled on an advertisement showing Houdini on the same vaudeville bill as his future co-star in The Man From Beyond, Jane Con...

Last week I posted the story of Houdini and Don the Talking Dog. Today I have a new tale of Houdini and a rascally fellow vaudevillian. This...