Question

Біографія гарри гудіні англійською допоможіть будь ласка

Answer 1

According to the documents, Houdini was born in Budapest in the family of a rabbi, although he himself claimed that his place of birth was the American state of Wisconsin. His parents emigrated to the United States on July 3, 1878, when Eric was four years old. Initially, the family settled in the town of Appleton (Wisconsin), where his father, Meer Samuel Weiss (1829-1892), received the post of rabbi of the reform synagogue Zion Reform Jewish Congregation (Reform Jewish Community of Zion)[5]. In 1887, Houdini and his father moved to New York, where they were soon joined by the artist's mother Cecilia (Cecilia) Steiner (1841-1913) and six of his brothers and sisters. The family spoke Yiddish, German and Hungarian.

Weiss has been publicly showing card tricks in entertainment venues since he was 10 years old. In 1892, he adopted the pseudonym Houdini in honor of the French magician Robert Houdin (fr. Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin), whose surname he read in accordance with the rules of English, not French. Later, the name Harry was added to the surname in honor of Harry Kellar, although, according to relatives, already in childhood friends called him Eri (Ehrie) or Harry (Harry) [source not specified 2169 days].

Initially toured the USA with his brother. Houdini's early career was dominated by self-release numbers from handcuffs and from water tanks. For advertising purposes, he practiced spectacular stunts that could be witnessed by whole crowds. So, once he was suspended in a bag from the eaves of a skyscraper, but successfully freed himself. Another time he passed [to clarify] in front of many spectators through a brick wall. In 1903, he was thrown off a bridge into the Thames handcuffed and shackled with a 30-kilogram ball, but surfaced a few minutes later, waving handcuffs. During a tour of Europe in 1900, Houdini impressed London with the number "The Disappearance of a Living Elephant", which he reproduced at the New York hippodrome in 1918.

In the summer of 1903 in Moscow, on the open stage of the Hermitage Summer garden, Houdini, being locked in a prisoner's carriage, was released from it, in front of the public [6]. On a tour of Russia in 1908, he demonstrated self-liberation from death row in Butyrskaya prison and the Peter and Paul Fortress. The magician also performed in Washington prisons. As the authors of the book "From the Magicians of Antiquity to the illusionists of our Days" describe this trick: "Locked in a prison cell, dressed in prison clothes, he came out two minutes later, opened the doors of neighboring cells and, for fun, swapped prisoners. Then he entered the dressing room and fifteen minutes after he was locked up, appeared in the guardhouse disguised in his suit"

With age, staged tricks were given to Houdini more and more difficult. Even after successful performances, he was hospitalized more than once. Since 1910, he began acting in films. In the same year, he put a number on the release from the mouth of the cannon a few seconds before the fuse goes off. Interested in aviation, he purchased a biplane and made the first ever flight over Australia. He also became close to former US President Theodore Roosevelt. There were rumors that Houdini was connected with the American secret services and with Scotland Yard.
At the zenith of his fame, Houdini earns a lot of money. In the 1920s, newspapers wrote that his salary was almost twice that of the President of the United States. The fear of ending his life in poverty, as it was with his father, did not leave him. Houdini did not know how to handle money at all: he trembled over every cent and at the same time spent huge sums on paintings and books. He sent checks to the elderly, gave gold coins to beggars, gave charity concerts in hospitals, orphanages and for prisoners in prisons.