Bringing Magicland to Hospital Tots

From The Indianapolis Star, Friday, October 16, 1925:  Yesterday afternoon the small patients at Riley Hospital were mystified by the magic of Houdini.  In two sessions, one for girls and one of boys, Houdini had each audience laughing and gazing in wide-eyed wonder when the little yellow rabbit came out of an empty box and the glass filled with inky black water turned crystal clear under the magic handkerchief.  Houdini showed where the magic egg went when it vanished from the little bag and how he did other mysterious tricks, but he didn’t reveal the magic word because that would make them as much a magician as he was.  One thing that didn’t vanish was the empty magic pan.  When Houdini put on the lid, and then lifted it, there was the biggest heap of candy one could wish for.   

“Bringing Magicland to Hospital Tots,” The Indianapolis Star, 16 October 1925, p. 11:2