

Theo married Elsie Fozzard and they had three children: Theodore Jr., Gladys, and Harry Houdini Hardeen. Hardeen was with their mother, Cecelia, when she had her fatal stroke in 1913. The brothers were very close and even lived together in Flatbush for several years.

It was Theo who first dated Bess, but it was Harry who married her. While there, they met Wilhelmina Beatrice "Bess" Rahner. In 1893 Hardeen performed with Houdini at Coney Island as "The Brothers Houdini". He was a younger brother of the famous magician, "Harry Houdini" and also a magician, illusionist and escape artist, under the stage name of Theodore "Dash" Hardeen. Biographyįerenc Dezső Weisz was born on 04 March 1876 in Budapest, Hungary and was the son of Mayer Samuel Weisz and Cecília Steiner.
