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Featured article Oudini Oudini (1885-?) was the stage name of Francis "Frank" Joseph Rowan, an escape artist and obvious Houdini imitator based on the name, during the early 1900s in the Boston area. Biography Oudini wrote a book called The Great Mysteries in 1909 in which he exposed his escapes and included many photos and press clippings of his performances. On the reverse side of the title page with the copyright date are the names "by Frank J. Rowan and E. T. Stewart". Some thought that Robert Doidge might have been "Oudini" because he had at one time so many copies available to sell. John Henry Grossman wrote in his MUM "Ask the Doctor" column that Walter B. Gibson informed him that Doidge told him that it was Frank J. Rowan, who lived near Haverhill, Massachusetts (where many of the press clippings from the book came from). Read more about Oudini … Did you know... From MagicPedia's random pages: Levante … Levante inspired Gerald Taylor to become a magician? … J.C. Wagner was co-owner of The Magic Lounge in San Diego? … Bill Bowman served as the first president of The Seattle Ring, Number 59 of the International Brotherhood of Magicians? … Joseph Michael Hartz opened up a magic store called "Magical Repository" with his brother Augustus? … CoinMagic contains the first substantial work of David Roth and was one of the first major books on coin magic to be released after J.B. Bobo's Modern Coin Magic? See also Recent changes.

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