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The old and the new magic (1906)

Evans, Henry Ridgely, b. 1861 · Chicago : The Open court Pub. Co.; [etc., etc.] · leaf 322

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io backed water, to use a boating phrase.Robinson was so taken with Ching Ling Foos act that hedecided to give similar seances, disguising himself as a China-man. Under the name of Chung Ling Soo he went to England, Digitized by Microsoft® MAGICIANS I HAVE MET 2S1 accompanied by his wife and a… … Chung Ling Soo.(I\Ir. Wm. G. Robinson.) over the celebrated Chinese wizard, and gold began to flow intothe coffers of the Robinson menage. So well was the secret keptthat for months no one, except the attaches of the theatre, knewthat Chung Ling Soo was a Yankee and not a genuine China-man, The…

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