Harry Houdini, the great magician, was a student of spiritualism. He accumulated a library on the subject, and, though skeptical of the possibility of communicating with the departed, was willing to be shown. Before he died in 1926, he and his wife, Beatrice Houdini, agreed to try to communicate. The pact was to last ten years. Mrs. Houdini visited mediums, attended séances, but there was no convincing word from the late magician. Last week she declared that there was nothing to spiritualism. “I tried to contact Harry for ten years after his death,” she said, “and nothing happened.”

Mrs. Houdini carried on as a magician for some time after her husband died. Then she opened a New York tea room, but it didn’t last long. Last Summer she attended the Hampton, N.H., exercises that cleared the famous Goody Cole of the Colonial charges of witchcraft. “Blasting of witchcraft is so important,” said the white-haired Mrs. Houdini at Hampton, “that I have traveled 3,000 miles to be present.”

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