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Chung Ling Soo’s Headed Paper

Posted: March 4th, 2014 | No Comments »

I’ve blogged before about Chung Ling Soo (here, here and here), actually William Ellsworth Robinson, an American magician who worked mostly in Britain before the First World War impersonating a Chinese magician in full mandarin regalia until a catching a bullet trick went wrong and he ended up dead at the Wood Green Empire. So thanks to the regular reader who sent me a copy of his own personalised headed paper….

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