The Society of Young Magicians (SYM) is an organization devoted to assisting magicians, age seven through seventeen years. The organization pays tribute to Harry Houdini, with a broken wand ceremony on the anniversary of his death (by the Jewish calendar) at his grave in Machpelah Cemetery in Ridgewood, Queens, New York City. After its disastrous fire, the museum's artifacts went on exhibit at the Whittier Museum for six months beginning in September 2012. Society of American Magicians Hall of Fame and Magic Museum, Los Angeles closed temporarily due to fire, contamination, and resultant litigation. He also was President of the Magicians' Club of London. Every other president has only served for one year. In July, 1926, Houdini was elected for the ninth successive time President of the Society of American Magicians.
The SAM now embraces over 5,000 members and almost 300 assemblies worldwide. He had created the richest and longest surviving organization of magicians in the world. By the end of 1916, magicians' clubs in San Francisco and other cities that Houdini had not visited were offering to become assemblies. In places where no clubs existed, he rounded up individual magicians, introduced them to each other, and urged them into the fold.
This was the biggest movement ever in the history of magic. Houdini dined with, addressed, and got pledges from similar clubs in Detroit, Rochester, Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Cincinnati and elsewhere. In 1917, he signed Assembly Number Three's charter, and that charter and this club continue to provide Chicago magicians with a connection to each other and to their past.
3 was, as the name implies, the third regional club to be established by the S.A.M., whose assemblies now number in the hundreds. The Buffalo club joined as the first branch (later, an assembly) of the Society. As had happened in London, Houdini persuaded magicians to join. Houdini persuaded groups in Buffalo, Detroit, Pittsburgh, and Kansas City to join. Wherever he traveled, Houdini would give a lengthy formal address to the local magic club, making speeches, and usually threw a banquet for the members at his own expense.įor most of 1916, while on his vaudeville tour, Houdini, at his own expense, had been recruiting local magic clubs to join the SAM in an effort to revitalize what he felt was a weak organization. Houdini sought to create a large, unified national network of professional and amateur magicians. He is pictured here in 1920 in the middle of his tenure.įounded on May 10, 1902, in the back room of Martinka's magic shop in New York City, the Society expanded under the leadership of Harry Houdini during his term as National President from 1917–1926. The Society grew under Harry Houdini's leadership.
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