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    March 24, 1918) was an American magician who went by the stage name Chung Ling Soo (Chinese: 程連蘇; pinyin: Chéng Liánsū). He is mostly remembered today...
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    exposing the fraudulent methods of mediumship. Early debunkers included Chung Ling Soo, Henry Evans and Julien Proskauer. Later magicians to reveal fraud were...
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    (179). "Ching Ling Foo and Chung Ling Soo: The Ultimate Magic Smackdown". travsd.wordpress.com. April 2, 2010. "A Wonderful Conjuror: Ching Ling Foo". March...
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  • performer being killed while performing the gun trick is the case of Chung Ling Soo (the stage name of the American magician William Ellsworth Robinson)...
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    exposing the fraudulent methods of mediumship. Early debunkers included Chung Ling Soo, Henry Evans and Julien Proskauer. Later magicians to reveal fraud were...
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    (2006). The Glorious Deception: The Double Life of William Robinson, Aka Chung Ling Soo, the Marvelous Chinese Conjurer. Da Capo Press. p. 291. ISBN 078671770X...
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  • Soo (1861-1918), an early stage name for yellowface faux-Chinese American stage magician William Ellsworth Robinson, better known as Chung Ling Soo Hop-Sing...
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    or magic-author debunkers of spiritualist mediumship have included Chung Ling Soo, Henry Evans, Julien Proskauer, Fulton Oursler, Joseph Dunninger, and...
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  • how far one would go to devote oneself to an art. The character of Chung Ling Soo, according to Shewman, is a metaphor for this theme. Film critic Alex...
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    many of the methods utilized by mediums to tip tables. The magician Chung Ling Soo described a method that involved a pin driven into the table and the...
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    40-41 Chung Ling Soo. (1898) Slate Writing and Kindred Phenomena. Munn & Company. Scientific American, New York City. pp. 105-106 Chung Ling Soo. (1898)...
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    James Randi Donovan Rawcliffe Joseph F. Rinn C. E. Bechhofer Roberts Chung Ling Soo Gordon Stein Amy Tanner Ivor Lloyd Tuckett Lyttelton Winslow Richard...
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  • from Beard. The Eddy brothers séance trick was exposed by the magician Chung Ling Soo. The trick involved a curtain that was put across the room, with musical...
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    Charles Joseph Carter on a world tour and had interested the magician Chung Ling Soo. Thurston continued presenting the Thurston–Kellar Show following the...
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    James Randi Donovan Rawcliffe Joseph F. Rinn C. E. Bechhofer Roberts Chung Ling Soo Gordon Stein Amy Tanner Ivor Lloyd Tuckett Lyttelton Winslow Richard...
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  • circumstances also be highly beneficial, according to Michel Strickmann. Ch'i Chung-fu, a Chinese gynecologist writing early in the 13th century, wrote that...
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  • Jansen Jeff McBride The Pendragons Penn and Teller Siegfried & Roy Chung Ling Soo P. C. Sorcar Jr. Howard Thurston Val Valentino Aquarian Illusion Asrah...
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  • sinking ship's last moments in an effort to calm the passengers. 1918: Chung Ling Soo, magician (real name: William Ellsworth Robinson), died as a result...
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    portrait of Fu Manchu was based on the popular music hall magician Chung Ling Soo, "a white man in costume who had shaved off his Victorian moustache...
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  • James Randi Donovan Rawcliffe Joseph F. Rinn C. E. Bechhofer Roberts Chung Ling Soo Gordon Stein Amy Tanner Ivor Lloyd Tuckett Lyttelton Winslow Richard...
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    Chung Ling High School (simplified Chinese: 槟城锺灵国民型中学; traditional Chinese: 檳城鍾靈國民型中學; pinyin: Zhōng líng zhōng xué; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chong-lêng tiong-o̍h;...
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  • noteworthy magicians and their unique styles, including Harry Houdini, Chung Ling Soo, Harry Blackstone Sr., Harry Blackstone Jr., Howard Thurston, and many...
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    would play an accordion with one hand under the table. The magician Chung Ling Soo exposed how Slade had performed the trick. Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner...
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    [程文萨]), Tibetan poet and essayist John S. Chen [程守宗], CEO of Blackberry Chung Ling Soo, [程連蘇] stage name of the American magician William Ellsworth Robinson...
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  • Étienne-Gaspard Robert-Houdin, Jean Eugène Robinson, William Ellsworth: see Chung Ling Soo Role, Brian Romany, the Diva of Magic Roth, David Rovi (Ivor Parry)...
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    James Randi Donovan Rawcliffe Joseph F. Rinn C. E. Bechhofer Roberts Chung Ling Soo Gordon Stein Amy Tanner Ivor Lloyd Tuckett Lyttelton Winslow Richard...
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    include magician and escape artiste Harry Houdini, faux Chinese magician Chung Ling Soo, and Jasper Maskelyne, the 'War Magician'. He is a sceptic with strong...
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  • head to Las Vegas to acquire a Zig Zag magic sword box, 1910 poster of Chung Ling Soo, a 19th-century naval cane sword and German beer steins. Paid $320 Value...
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    in the Religio-Philosophical Journal in October 20, 1866. Magician Chung Ling Soo revealed the brothers trick known as the "Davenport Tie" in 1898. According...
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    Robert-Houdin also performed a version of the trick, as did the magician Chung Ling Soo. In the May 2016 issue of Genii (magazine), world-famous mentalist and...
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