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	Chung Ling Soo in Sydney 1909
		In a final incredible moment, Chung Ling Soo brandished his wand, and behold the lady from the cage appeared in the middle of the blazing cauldron.
		Chung Ling Soo also had a habit of strolling around the streets of Sydney casually performing miracles as he went by.
		Chung maintained that his father was a descendant of the Campbell and Robertson clans.
	www.hat-archive.com /chunglingsoo.htm (1616 words)

	Chung Ling Soo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chung Ling Soo was the stage name of U.S. stage magician William Robinson (1861-1918).
		Soo's wife explained the nature of the trick and the inquest judged the case "accidental death".
		The riddle of Chung Ling Soo (Unknown Binding) (1955)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chung_Ling_Soo (541 words)

	Chung Ling Soo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Chung Ling Soo was a stage name of US[For more info, click on this link] stage magician[For more, click on this link] William Robinson(1861-1918).
		Several of members of the audience were called on the stage to mark a bullet that was loaded to one of the guns.
		Soo's wife explained the nature of the trick and the inquest inquest quick summary:
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/chung_ling_soo.htm (696 words)

	Jim Steinmeyer - Newsletter - Spring 2005 - Excerpt from Glorious Deception
		Beneath the embroidered robe, Soo was dressed simply, in dark silk pants and a loose oriental tunic, in an artistic contrast to the bright scenery and the colorful robes worn by his assistants.
		Soo clapped his hands, the cylinder was lifted, and in her place was an enormous orange tree, its branches filled with green foliage and ripe fruit.
		Soo then offered hearty handshakes to his volunteers—first a western handshake, then a Chinese handshake, clutching his own hands and bobbing them up and down in front of his chest—as the men were escorted back to their seats and the orchestra sounded a triumphal chord.
	www.jimsteinmeyer.com /newsletter/glorious_deception (5493 words)

	The Glorious Deception: The Double Life of William Robinson, Aka Chung Ling Soo, the "Marvelous Chinese ...
		The Glorious Deception: The Double Life of William Robinson, Aka Chung Ling Soo, the "Marvelous Chinese Conjurer"...
		Soo's infamous and suspicious onstage death in 1918 mystified his fellow...
		Here is a look at the rough-and-tumble world of turn-of-the-century entertainments, the West's discovery of Oriental culture, and Soo's strange descent into secrecy as he rose to stardom-written by the foremost chronicler of magic's history and culture.
	shopping.msn.com /specs/shp?itemId=1880131 (271 words)

	Ching Ling Foo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ching Ling Foo (1854 - 1922), born Chee Ling Qua, is credited with being the first modern Oriental magician to achieve world fame.
		His act was in some respects plundered by an American magician who went on to even greater fame - Chung Ling Soo.
		Robinson, in the guise of Soo, traveled to Europe and a deep rivalry was begun between the two men.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ching_Ling_Foo (410 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Chung Ling Soo
		Chung Ling Soo was a stage name of U.S. stage magician William Robinson(1861-1918).
		He took the name as a variation of a real Chinese stage magician Ching Ling Foo, and to increase his allure with a touch of exoticism.
		Due to his death while performing it, Soo's most famous trick was the "live target" (or "comdemned to death") trick.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Chung_Ling_Soo (510 words)

	Magic: the Science of Illusion
		Ching Ling Foo was born Chee Ling Qua in 1854 in Beijing, China.
		Not long after Ching Ling Foo refused to let William Robinson try for the $1,000 reward, Robinson went to Europe with a new Chinese-style show of his own and recreated himself as the magician Chung Ling Soo.
		Chung Ling Soo was there at the appointed time, ready to win, but Ching Ling Foo never arrived.
	www.magicexhibit.org /story/story_chungLingSoo.html (483 words)

	Navy SEALs.com - Articles: Viewing Article
		In "The Glorious Deception," Jim Steinmeyer tells the story of his rise to fame as the inscrutable Chung Ling Soo, and his fatal encounter with a trick known as Condemned to Death by the Boxers.
		"The dignity of Chung Ling Soo is too sublime to permit him to enter into any discussion with a slave who has sat at street corners, juggling for cash," his assistant told the newspapers.
		Chung Ling Soo's greatest trick, however, turned out to be his last.
	www.navyseals.com /community/articles/article.cfm?id=7718 (841 words)

	snarkout: invisible bullets
		Chung Ling Soo was a New Yorker by birth, a Scot by ancestry, and "the Original Chinese Conjurer" by choice.
		The magician, born William Robinson, gained prominence thanks to a feud with an actual Chinese stage magician, Ching Ling Foo (né Chee Ling Qua; the good people of New York in 1898 were not sticklers for authenticity in their Chinese names).
		Chung Ling Soo's death occured when a poorly maintained gaffed gun allowed gunpowder (intended for a blank) to trickle into the barrel where the real bullet was stored.
	www.snarkout.org /archives/2004/05/22 (692 words)

	Who's Who in Magic History C-D \| MagicTricks.Com: the Magician's Magic Shop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Chung Ling Soo soon became an incredibly famous performer, both in America and abroad, with exceptional and beautiful publicity posters that fetch thousands of dollars today.
		Chung Ling Soo appeared in full costume onstage and offstage, and always had an interpreter with him.
		His most famous effect was the dangerous Bullet Catching Trick, in which several volunteers lined up onstage and fired guns directly at him; the bullet would break a plate he held in front of his chest, and he would catch the bullet in his teeth.
	www.magictricks.com /bios/whoswhocd.htm (2759 words)

	Scotsman.com Living - Mystery of the magician who spent his life dodging bullets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For Chung Ling Soo was shot dead while "Defying the Bullets", his dicing-with-death illusion which he had been performing routinely on stage for decades.
		In The Mystery of Chung Ling Soo, Koplan promises he and his five-strong cast will attempt to solve these riddles "with dazzling illusions in a phantasmagoria that spins a real-life murder mystery topsy-turvy".
		The Mystery of Chung Ling Soo comes to Edinburgh in association with New York's 78th Street Theatre Lab, which under the artistic directorship of Eric Nightengale has created the innovative From Page to Stage series developed in the tradition of the living newspaper.
	living.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=767442005 (1572 words)

	Mansion Design Popular Collectibles Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This one sheet Chung Ling Soo poster, dubbed "dragon Pendant" or, alternatively, "The Marvelous Chinese Conjurer" is professionally linen backed and is in NM or mint condition, measuring about 20x30 cm with ample white margins.
		Depicts a fire breathing dragon and a portrait of Chung Ling Soo using an especially striking color scheme that relies on the contrast between a cherry red, a nearly palpable mustard color and a stark fl and white to produce its rivetting effect.
		Chung Ling Soo was actually an extremely successful creation of American conjurer William Ellsworth Robinson (1861-1918), who cut his teeth working with the legendary Harry Kellar and Alexander Hermann.
	www.trocadero.com /desman/catalog/Popular_Collectibles10.html (277 words)

	2005-09-07-Dying on Stage, reviewed by Joel Moskowitz
		These and other magical secrets are part of the life of an American conjurer who achieved fame pretending to be Chinese, William Robinson, aka Chung Ling Soo.
		The name and performance which was his ultimate appellation, Chung Ling Soo.
		Robinson emerged with his own new act, as Chung Ling Soo (meaning extra good luck) mimicking and capitalizing on the fame earned by the true Chinese conjurer, Ching Ling Foo.
	www.jewishsightseeing.com /writers_directory/joel_moskowitz/2005-09-06_dying_on_stage.htm (784 words)

	edfringe.com : official site of the edinburgh festival fringe
		It was not this new trick which was responsible for his death, however, but one (entitled Defying the Bullets) which had already become his trademark, for he was apparently killed by a shot from one of the three guns fired at him on stage.
		And in fact the show is probably worth seeing for its last few moments alone, when the new illusion that Chung Ling Soo was to have performed on the night he died - "The Metamorphosis" - is revealed to us with great panache.
		The acting is great (even the silent Chung Ling Soo) and the stage use in places superb (notably the use of parasols and one bit when the characters are showing the passing of time/appearances).
	www.edfringe.com /reviews/read.html?id=MYST (582 words)

	The Miracle Mongers, an Expose' - CHAPTER FIVE
		Ling Look, one of the best of contemporary fire performers, was with Dean Harry Kellar when the latter made his famous trip around the world in 1877.
		Kellar later informed me that the resemblance was so strong that had he not seen the original Ling Look consigned to the earth, he himself would have been duped into believing that this was the man who had been with him in Hong Kong.
		The Salambos were among the first to use electrical effects in a fire act, combining these with the natural gas and ``human volcano'' stunts of their predecessors, so that they were able to present an extremely spectacular performance without having recourse to such unpleasant features as had marred the effect of earlier fire acts.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/newage/MiracleMongers/chap5.html (2636 words)

	Northwest Asian Weekly: A quick look at books
		Two Chinese riflemen pulled the triggers of two muzzle-loader rifles while across the stage, their master, Chung Ling Soo, stood holding a plate over his chest.
		Soo spoke not a word onstage, pretended to understand only Chinese and employed a revered Japanese assistant as his “translator” for press conferences.
		Chung Ling Soo was proud and artistic on stage...
	www.nwasianweekly.com /20072601/books20072601.htm (406 words)

	Page Title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ching Ling Foo and Chung Ling Soo rivalry,
		Already famous in Chinese vaudeville when he and a troupe came to the USA in 1898 to perform at the Trans-Mississippi Exhibition in Omaha, Nebraska, Ching Ling Foo was an accomplished magician whose illusions he defied anyone to copy.
		The American was determined to prove himself the better illusionist. The Chinese magician was intent upon revealing Robinson to be a fraud.
	www.gis.net /~showbiz/index_files/Page811.htm (114 words)

	Welcome to AJC! \| ajc.com
		In the early 1900s, Chung Ling Soo, the “Marvelous Chinese Conjuror,” was as popular a vaudevillian as his friend Harry Houdini.
		Was Chung Ling Soo’s death an accident, a crime of passion or the result of some undetected motive?
		Like his famous historical counterpart Chung Ling Soo, James Chen barely murmurs a syllable, but his fluid movement and inscrutable gaze make him the mesmerizing focal point of the show-within-a-show.
	www.ajc.com /blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/reviews/entries/2005/07/22/magic_deception.html (524 words)

	Jim Steinmeyer - Newsletter - Public - Fall 2004
		Soo’s infamous and suspicious onstage death in 1918 mystified his fellow magicians like Houdini: he was tragically shot during a performance of a trick he called “Defying the Bullets,” in which he attempted to catch marked bullets on a porcelain plate.
		“Here is a one-of-a-kind look at the education of a magician in the rough and tumble world of turn-of-the-century entertainments, the West’s discovery of Oriental culture, and Chung Ling Soo's strange descent into secrecy as he rose to stardom—written by Steinmeyer, the foremost chronicler of magic’s history and culture.
		Chung Ling Soo is a well-known figure to many magicians, who are familiar with the strange and tragic circumstances of his death and his unusual, fraudulent pose as a Chinese magician.
	www.jimsteinmeyer.com /newsletter/archives/fall04.html (2361 words)

	Greatest illusion was magician's life
		For, as detailed in "The Glorious Deception," Chung Ling Soo was actually William Ellsworth Robinson, a working-class New Yorker who, like some deceptive character in a Shakespearean drama, invented Chung Ling Soo as his alter ego.
		And, as we learn in the book, the ruse worked well, until the fateful night in 1918 in London when Chung Ling Soo was killed while performing his most famous trick, "Defying the Bullets," which involved catching bullets fired from a rifle with a porcelain plate.
		Driven by his outsize ambition, he invented the "Marvelous Chinese Conjurer" character after seeing a magician named Chung Ling Foo (who was actually Chinese), and took his act to Europe, to splendid results.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/28/RVGJJEC2LK1.DTL (707 words)

	The Stage @Edinburgh :: The Mystery of Chung Ling Soo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Chung Ling Soo was the best-known magician of his time and one of the top box-office draws until his sensational death in 1918 onstage at London’s Wood Green Empire.
		He was killed while performing Defying the Bullets, the trick he had made his own where he appears to catch in his teeth bullets fired at him from real guns.
		Matt Seidman and Michael Lopez impress with their double act of magician turned manager William Robinson and the silent Chung Ling Soo respectively, while Jerusha Klemperer makes for a feisty Dot - Robinson’s long-suffering wife and Chung’s assistant.
	www.thestage.co.uk /edinburgh/production/12932-the-mystery-of-chung-ling-soo-c (345 words)

	Reviews from the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe (53)
		The Mystery of Chung Ling Soo is the latest work to reach Edinburgh after development at 78th Street Lab.
		His solution was to bring a new act, in employing the Celestial Chinaman Chung Ling Soo, whose speciality was an illusion called Defying the Bullets.
		Nobody realised that Chung Ling Soo was not all that he seemed.
	www.britishtheatreguide.info /otherresources/fringe/fringe05-53.htm (684 words)

	The Glorious Deception
		In a biography woven from equal parts enchantment and mystery, Jim Steinmeyer unveils the secrets behind the most enigmatic performer in the history of stage magic, Chung Ling Soo, the 'Marvelous Chinese Conjurer' - a magician whose daring made his contemporary Houdini seem like the boy next door.
		Soo's infamous and suspicious onstage death in 1918 mystified his fellow magicians: he was shot during a performance of 'Defying the Bullets,' in which he attempted to catch marked bullets on a porcelain plate.
		Here is a look at the rough-and-tumble world of turn-of-the-century entertainments, the West’s discovery of Oriental culture, and Soo's strange descent into secrecy as he rose to stardom—written by the foremost chronicler of magic’s history and culture.
	www.atomicbooks.com /products/-/11467.html (294 words)

	www.GranHoudini.net
		He tells of Robinson's early experiences in the United States, of his appearance and calamitous failure at the Folies Bergeres as "Hop Sing Soo" - and his great success the following night as "Chung Ling Soo".
		He tells of the battle with Ching Ling Foo, a genuine Chinese magician.
		The truth behind the greasepaint and the Oriental mask, and yet retains all the glamour and colour of a great illusionist and a great personality.
	www.granhoudini.net (1813 words)

	Amazon.com: The Glorious Deception: The Double Life of William Robinson, aka Chung Ling Soo, the "Marvelous Chinese ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Steinmeyer beautifully limns a portrait of the scrappy but sophisticated world of magic in the early days of vaudeville and music hall and brilliantly captures the personalities of the master magicians who commanded up to $5000 a week performing for rapt crowds who came to see miracles, and were rarely disappointed.
		Steinmeyer's book not only illuminates what really happened during Soo's tragic final performance the night of March 23, 1918, he weaves a fascinating tale of deception, rivalry, and illusion in the dark world of magic 100 years ago.
		Chung Ling Soo is hard subject to nail down.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/078671512X?v=glance (2225 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Edinburgh Festival Fringe - The Mystery of Chung Ling Soo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		And this may be the case, because Ling Soo never spoke onstage and always used an interpreter when he spoke to journalists.
		It also allows the character of Ling Soo to appear all the more mysterious and enigmatic; a ghost-like figure hovering in the background, only occasionally taking centre stage when he is delivering his miracles.
		The magic chest, now doubling as Robinson's coffin, is the main prop as the cast reveal - and perform - what would have been the revelation of Ling Soo's cherished secret; the trick that was to follow the bullet catch had it not gone so horribly wrong.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=933&id=1824222005 (676 words)

	JON CARROLL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Chung Ling Soo, the Chinese stage magician, was really William Robinson, a white magician and builder of illusions.
		He was shy onstage, and could really relax only when he inhabited a character he'd created.
		Robinson also had two families, but even that was not a secret; his two "wives" knew about each other, although they were not fond of each other.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/21/DDGEIDMA9B1.DTL (853 words)

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