At one point, Houdini billed himself as the "King of Cards"

While there, Brown attended a hypnotist show by Martin Taylor, which inspired him to turn to illusion and hypnosis as a career.

He started performing at the University of Bristol under the stage name Darren V. Brown.

He came to the conclusion that his belief had no basis.

... but upon doing so he found none of the answers he sought and

He headlined throughout the Keith-Orpheum Circuit...

Dunninger was a debunker of fraudulent mediums

He claimed to replicate through trickery all spiritualist phenomena.

After some days of unsuccessful interviews in London, Houdini managed to interest Dundas Slater...