![]() After a successful tour of Europe, the couple returned home in 1905 and bought a brownstone in Manhattan. They gained notice with a trunk escape Houdini created called The Metamorphosis and began playing in leading vaudeville houses from the Midwest to California by 1900, they were also starring on the East Coast circuit. Bess left the Floral Sisters and became her husband's new stage assistant and the act became The Houdinis. After a three week courtship, and despite objections to a Gentile daughter-in-law, the couple were married on June 22, 1894. ![]() She was performing a song and dance act as one of the Floral Sisters in Brighton Beach, New York. Born Wilhelmina Beatrice Rahner, she met an unknown magician named Ehrich Weisz in 1894 who, with his brother Dash, was performing under the name Houdini Brothers. ![]()
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