Houdini water torture cell escape5/21/2023 ![]() By all accounts his courtroom audience was less receptive than the music hall crowds he was accustomed to. In 1905, during a run at the Newport Lyceum, he instigated court proceedings claiming to be the victim of an assault. ![]() Houdini amazed audiences in towns and cities across the country, but the magician's appearances in Newport were notable for his clashes with the authorities. Newspaper advertisements list performers including Vandinoff, "the lightening painter in oils" Nelson "with and without a piano" Jackson and, perhaps most impressively, Mr Bowmeester who "plays a pathetic sketch which includes a dozen parts, eight or nine of which are sustained by himself." Whether Bowmeester's performance surpassed the giddy heights of Billy French and his "wooden shoe dancing" can only be left to speculation. ![]() His programme would also include a company of popular vaudeville acts.
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