When was houdini married

They were confidants in all matters, it seems. If that photo is June 22, then they were in Osnabruck, Germany, according to Koval. But they could have done the legal ceremony anytime, but still celebrated the Coney Island date as their true anniversary. Strange how Houdini and the family kept nearly every document imaginable, but no marriage certificate?

Bess gave a name of a man who married them, however that man was in jail at the time. Another name of a priest was mentioned Harry and Bess were never officially married. But in their hearts and minds they were.

Wow, this has me intrigued. Benjamin Abner Tintner who was 14 years of age in and 21 years of age in , but his father, Rabbi Moritz Morris Tintner. However, there is no source or date mentioned. Today, I believe you have to be at least 22 years old to be eligible to become a rabbi. Weltman speculates about it possibly being the senior Tinter. But Houdini was clear that it was the son who married him in his instructions for his own funeral.

He wanted Tinter to do the funeral service, which he did. But because the son was too young, Silverman might have just made the leap that it must have been the father. I don't think he gets into the controversy in his book. Silverman doesn't get that far into the marriage controversy. It's still unexplored territory, but then I have still haven't received my copy of Eduardo's Houdini bio. He may have something to add.

We here in the U. They might now be digitally stored which could make things a bit easier. We often ate lunch together. He learned of my interest in magic and he told me that the ram's horn shaper which he used on the High Holidays when he conducted services would be of special interest to me. He told me the following interesting story which I have no reason to doubt since Rabbi Tintner was a man of great integrity. The rabbi's father was also a rabbi and a close friend of Houdini.

He converted Houdini's wife to Judaism and married them. Houdini was so delighted that he gave him his father's ram's horn as a gift. His father was Rabbi Weiss. Rabbi Tintner subsequently inherited the ram's horn which he always treasured.

Very truly yours, Mendel Krim M. This was in reference to the article Was Houdini Married? Fascinated with magic from a young age, Harry Houdini began performing and drew attention for his daring feats of escape.

In , he married Wilhelmina Rahner, who became his onstage partner as well. Houdini continued performing escape acts until his death, on October 31, , in Detroit, Michigan. One of seven children born to a Jewish rabbi and his wife, Weisz moved with his family as a child to Appleton, Wisconsin, where he later claimed he was born. When he was 13, Weisz moved with his father to New York City, taking on odd jobs and living in a boarding house before the rest of the family joined them.

It was there that he became interested in trapeze arts. Though his magic met with little success, he soon drew attention for his feats of escape using handcuffs. In , he married fellow performer Wilhelmina Beatrice Rahner, who would serve as Houdini's lifelong stage assistant under the name Beatrice "Bess" Houdini.

In , Houdini's act caught the attention of Martin Beck, an entertainment manager who soon got him booked at some of the best vaudeville venues in the country, followed by a tour of Europe. Houdini's feats would involve the local police, who would strip search him, place him in shackles and lock him in their jails.

The show was a huge sensation, and he soon became the highest-paid performer in American vaudeville. Houdini continued his act in the United States in the early s, constantly upping the ante from handcuffs and straightjackets to locked, water-filled tanks and nailed packing crates. He was able to escape because of both his uncanny strength and his equally uncanny ability to pick locks. In , his act reached its pinnacle, the Chinese Water Torture Cell, which would be the hallmark of his career.

In it, Houdini was suspended by his feet and lowered upside-down in a locked glass cabinet filled with water, requiring him to hold his breath for more than three minutes to escape. The performance was so daring and such a crowd-pleaser that it remained in his act until his death in Both the stories and the performances were weak, but the films showed Houdini the way his public wanted to see him.

Each magic routine or stunt was shown as "real," with no camera tricks helping out the Master Detective. Steve and Patricia Hanson related in a Los Angeles magazine article that Houdini became interested in "making contact with those who had gone beyond" after his mother's death in His attempts in this area brought him into contact with writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle — , the creator of the Sherlock Holmes character. In , as a publicity stunt, Houdini had written a letter to "Holmes," asking for help in catching crooks who were stealing his tricks.

By the two men had formed a friendship based on their talent and their grief—just as Houdini had lost his beloved mother, Doyle had lost his son, Kingsley, who had been killed in World Harry Houdini.

Reproduced by permission of Archive Photos, Inc. Each man sought ways to make contact with the spirit world. After a while the friendship began to weaken. Houdini was not as strong a believer as Doyle. Part of Houdini's career was devoted to exposing fakes who pretended to be able to contact spirits.

As the Hansons noted in Los Angeles, Houdini felt that Doyle was too blinded by grief to see clearly, and Doyle thought that Houdini was not open-minded enough and was too anxious to expose fraud.

The two men's friendship ended. No evidence of real contact with Houdini's mother was ever recorded, but her death haunted Houdini until the occasion of his own passing. Even that event has since been clouded by the myths that always seemed to accompany him.

For instance, a feature film of Houdini's life released in showed him dying in one of his own watery coffins during a performance. There were many other incorrect stories describing his death.

What really happened was that Houdini, while on tour in Montreal, Canada, was relaxing backstage where some college students came to see him. Houdini often challenged people to punch him in the stomach with all their strength, and he agreed to let one of the students take a swing. But the punch came while Houdini was lying on a couch, before he had prepared for the impact.

An injury to the appendix resulted. Left untreated for several days, it turned into an infection that struck Houdini down during a performance in Detroit, Michigan. Rushed to a hospital, he held on for a few days before dying in his wife's arms on October 31, —Halloween day.

Even in death Houdini knew how to create publicity. His widow made headlines by announcing that every year on the anniversary of his death she was going to try to make contact with his spirit. This went on for some ten years, and though Bess once claimed that contact was made, she later changed her story. Houdini continues to live on in the public's imagination.

After a lifetime of pretending to have mythic talents, Houdini became a myth himself. Harry Houdini, Young Magician.