With his career at its peak, world famous Harry Houdini, St. Cecile Lodge 568, New York City, always stayed at the finest hotels when he took his performances on the road. On one occasion at the ritzy Savoy Hotel in Kansas City, a guest recognized Brother Harry as he went into a phone booth to make a call. Once Houdini had closed the folding doors the guest grabbed a broom and shoved it through the door handle in a position which would prevent the doors from opening. When he finished his call, Houdini turned to find the door jammed. Although he tried everything he could, the great magician and world's most famous escape artist could not get out of the phone booth!Hotel personnel had to rescue him and eyewittnesses reported that upon his release, Brother Houdini was quite upset and did not "subdue his passions."
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