Very little is known about these runaway days, except that he planned to go to Galveston, Texas and went by the name Harry White. He later re-joined his family in New York City. In New York, the teenage Harry landed a job as a tie-cutter at H. His father also worked a sewing bench for a time. It was at this time that Harry read the autobiography of a famous French magician, The Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, and became fascinated with magic.Īs a member of the Pastime Athletics Club and the Amateur Athletic Union, Harry competed in, and won, several foot races, boxing matches, bicycle races, and swim meets. Adding an "i" to the name Houdin, he adopted the stage name Harry Houdini and formed an act with his friend and fellow tie-cutter Jacob Hyman called "The Brothers Houdini." The high point of their act was a substitution trunk trick called Metamorphosis, which Houdini would perform throughout his entire career. Houdini's real brother, Theodore, aka Dash, soon replaced Hyman in the act. (Hyman continued to perform as "Houdini" well into the 1900s.) The brothers performed on the midway at the Columbia Exposition alongside another future great, Howard Thurston. In 1894 they were performing in Coney Island when Harry met Wilhelmina Beatrice Rahner, aka Bess, a showgirl in an act called The Floral Sisters. After only three weeks’ courtship, Harry and Bess were married - much to the horror of Bess's strict German Catholic mother, who refused to speak to her daughter or new son-in-law ( who she thought was the devil) for many years. Renaming the act "The Houdinis," Harry and Bess played beer halls and dime museums, and traveled with circuses and medicine shows throughout the U.S. Sometimes they performed comedic playlets as "The Rahners: American’s Greatest Comedy Act." To make ends meet, Harry also performed a solo magic act as the “King of Cards” or “Cardo,” and masqueraded as " Projea The Wild Man of Mexico" in a circus sideshow - where his sleight of hand skills made it appear as if he ate cigarettes thrown into his cage. Axe is a really easy and good weapon to learn.He later co-managed an ill-fated Burlesque show called The American Gaiety Girls.ĭespite an engagement at Tony Pastor’s popular vaudeville theater in New York, the couple found little success with their magic act. Hammer – Lil capped, Kylar alice, Boomie, Simple.Sword – Noel, Phazon, Ethan, Wrenchd, iMLLama.Naming a few pro players for specific weapons.Searching for sair to kill can be difficult sometimes so keep building up damage instead of getting punished for sairs and eventually your dlight, nlight will be able to kill.Sair off the wall if youre being edge guarded.Practice eggdrops (Throw weapon down, Pickup, Dair) Insane for edge guarding.If a player is playing you at a point blank range.Dont let your opponent get to close to you.If they are playing floaty, Search for Dairs and punish them.Edge guard w Nlight to catch jumps off the ledge.Search for gimps because Dair and Gp on axe is really good.Practice Dash Jump Nairs/ Reverse Nairs. ![]()
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