The scrapbooks also reveal a lot about Houdini the man. I had already been working on the escape, but photos in the scrapbooks helped me fill in some missing details. Recently, I was able to obtain Houdini's private scrapbooks, which had been in the possession of his wife's niece. He never published the secret of the feat and I do not want to reveal how I learned it except to say that it was entrusted to me by somebody. Houdini used to perform the escape-shackled and submerged upside down in a tank of water locked from the outside-as a feature of his vaudeville act. One of Houdini's greatest feats, “The Water Torture Escape,” will be re‐created by me on my live television special, “The World of Magic,” at 8 P.M., this Friday on NBC. He's probably more a legend now than when he died in 1926-on Halloween. Doctorow's current best ‐ seller “Ragtime.” The 1953 movie biography, Houdinni, starring Tony Curtis, has recently been revived on prime time television, and two more feature films about the magician have been announced.
There are three new books being written about Houdini, and he is a semi‐fictionalized character in E. Today, nearly 50 years after his death, Houdini has become part of world folklore-the only stage figure I can think of to have achieved that stature.
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