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
Louis R. Ehrich Art Gallery in memory of their father Louis. Under Harold and Walter's leadership, the galleries began to incorporate a greater number of modern and American paintings in the 1920s and 1930s. It merged with the Newhouse Galleries in 1934, becoming the Ehrich-Newhouse Galleries. The galleries continued to exhibit and sell art until Walter Ehrich's death in 1936, after which the Newhouse Galleries became an independent entity once again. Ehrich married Henrietta Minsezheimer in 1874. In addition to Harold and Walter, who ran Ehrich Galleries after Louis's death, they had a daughter named Leah. Louis Ehrich was a trustee at the