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Back in the early 1900s, an escape artist was performing one of his seemingly death-defying stunts in an English vaudeville theater. The trick involved undoing a pair of handcuffs, wriggling free from a series of ropes, exiting from a canvas bag, and sneaking out from a hidden panel set into a large shuttered box. The escape expert completed all his maneuvers in record time — snuck through the secret compartment through a special passageway that led beneath the stage — and prepared to make his way around to the back of the house for his triumphant surprise entrance.

Unfortunately, he forgot for a moment that he was working that evening in a building that housed not one but two active theaters, each ...