Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin Elephant", that every magician of the 20th century was "haunted" by Robert-Houdin, "…who cast an enormous shadow over their generation." American magician and escape artist Harry Houdini (born Ehrich Weiss) was so impressed by Robert-Houdin that, after reading his autobiography in 1890, Ehrich adopted the stage name of "Houdini" in honour of Robert-Houdin. He incorrectly believed that an "i" on the end of a name meant "like" in French; but Houdini, his own career and reputation established by that time, later lost his youthful respect for Robert-Houdin, believing that he took undue credit for other magicians' innovations, and wrote "The
Lee Weiss 1972, when her paintings were selected for this honor by the Smithsonian Institution. Lee Weiss has work in over sixty museum and corporate collections, including: the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Racine Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum. Lee Weiss Lee Weiss (born 1928) is an American painter known for her watercolors. Lee was born as Elyse Crouse in 1928 in Englewood, California, and raised in nearby Santa Ana, California. She attended California College of Arts and Crafts for a year, studied under Nels Eric Oback, and was critiqued by Alexander Nepote. However, for the most part, Weiss is a self taught