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Hippodrome
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The most popular vaudeville artists of the day, including Harry Houdini, performed at the Hippodrome during its heyday. In 1918, on the brightly-lit stage of the Hippodrome, Houdini made an elephant disappear. He created a sensation when he fired a pistol and Jennie vanished from view.
The Hippodrome's huge running costs made it a perennial financial failure, and a series of producers tried and failed to make money from the theatre. It became a location for Vaudeville productions in 1923 before being leased for budget opera performances, finally becoming a sports arena.