Harry Houdini a boarding house on East 79th Street. He was joined by the rest of the family once Rabbi Weiss found permanent housing. As a child, Ehrich Weiss took several jobs, making his public début as a 9-year-old trapeze artist, calling himself "Ehrich, the Prince of the Air". He was also a champion cross country runner in his youth. When Weiss became a professional magician he began calling himself "Harry Houdini", after the French magician Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, after reading Robert-Houdin's autobiography in 1890. Weiss incorrectly believed that an "i" at the end of a name meant "like" in French. In
Max Ehrich Max Ehrich Max Ehrich is an American actor, singer, and dancer. He played Fenmore Baldwin in the CBS Daytime soap opera "The Young and the Restless", and portrayed computer hacker Hunter May in the CBS series "Under the Dome". Ehrich also portrayed the recurring role of recovering drug addict Freddie Ridge in the Hulu series "The Path". Ehrich is a native of Marlboro Township, New Jersey. He made his film debut starring in "One Easy Job" (2004), then had a supporting role as principal dancer in "". Breaking into television, Ehrich was a recurring guest star in Ugly Betty's Season