![]() They were Dorothy Dietrich Dick Brookz Steve Moore, retired escape artist along with Dean Allen, contractor Tracy Bullaro, helper Cathy Moore, helper and Ron Chicken, videographer. This event is free and open to the public by reservation.Ī secret group called the “Houdini Commandos” was then formed. Another will be unveiled this year at the annual historic Houdini Seance on Halloween at The Houdini Museum. The best one destined to be installed at Houdini’s grave site. In the past year they made five trial composition busts and finally three statuary cement busts. For the sake of posterity, the two magicians secretly made a mold of the bust and put that in storage. The Society of American Magicians asked them to return the replica in 1979 and it was soon misplaced. The magicians currently run the nonprofit Houdini Museum in Scranton PA. The lightweight copy was on loan to magicians Dorothy Dietrich and Dick Brookz, owners of New York City’s Magic Towne House, who had it on display. Houdini’s wife donated the original to that museum. In the 1970’s The Society of American Magicians made a lightweight cast of an original bust now owned by the Museum of the City of New York. We did try to contact the cemetery in the past but to no avail. ![]() We decided not to contact them, to avoid any new problems with this project. There had been some contention between the Society of American Magicians and the cemetery as to ownership of the grave. A high profile New York lawyer, Gary Pillersdorf, was contacted for advice and to bail us out in case we got arrested. We were told to get a letter from the closest living relatives going back to Houdini’s death, and to have insurance in case anyone was hurt doing the repairs. Peter Blacksberg, the president of Riverside Cemetery, a Jewish cemetery in Saddlebrook, New Jersey, was contacted for advice. Many consultants were contacted in conjunction with this plan. Because of this the cemetery now closes on Halloween, the date of Houdini’s death. ![]() Several composition, or plastic, busts were placed there briefly but lasted a short time or were used one day each year – October 31, for a ceremony done by The Society of Americans – that brought more grief to the cemetery. The original statuary bust was installed after Houdini’s death in 1926. It reached full intensity in the past year. 3, 2011 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) - The Houdini Museum, a 501(c)3 nonprofit museum in Scranton, PA, had a secret project to restore Houdini’s grave site bust for over 20 years. ![]()
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