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SYMHC Classics: Harry Houdini, Master Mystifier

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Harry Houdini - A Review

At the age of 12 Houdini makes a solemn promise to his dad that he will always provide for his mother Especially if something happens to his father. He does leave home at 12 and trying to make his fortune trying to help out. The family ends up in New York and again Harry's got all kinds of odd jobs trying to help the family. But while he's working in a necktie cutting factory in New York he reads an autobiography of Roberta who's the father of modern magic and likes the name so much that he decides to take it on Himself or his stage name right.

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