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Showing posts with label Chung Ling Soo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chung Ling Soo. Show all posts
Monday, March 24, 2025

The Death of Chung Ling Son 107 Years Ago Today

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  He was a performer who struggled to gain fame. He was known by everyone in the magic world. The best of the best sought him out like Herrm...
Saturday, January 12, 2019

The Grave of Olive Dot Robinson, Wife of Chung Ling Soo

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Dot Robinson being floated by Harry Kellar When it comes to one of the greatest magician's assistants in history, surely one of the ...
Monday, December 5, 2016

Dot Robinson, Wife of Chung Ling Soo

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Olive 'Dot' Robinson was the wife of William Ellsworth Robinson, known professionally as Chung Ling Soo. She was born Olive Path a...
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Sunday, December 20, 2015

Chung Ling Soo Model Plane Maker

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One of my favorite things about this blog are the readers who contact me with various bits of information. Earlier in the year I received ...
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Monday, December 15, 2014

A True Forgotten Illusion

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Back in 1998, I purchased an unusual little booklet called Chung Ling Soo's Mechanists -They Stayed Behind , by Brian McCullagh and D...
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Saturday, November 29, 2014

What Came Before The Rabbit and Hat?

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When lay people think of magicians, one of the first things that comes to mind is the Rabbit and Hat trick. Thanks to John Henry Anders...
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Thursday, February 20, 2014

The Grave of Chung Ling Soo

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(photo provided by Tom Atkinson) This is very exciting. One of my readers, Tom Atkinson, sent several photos over of the Chung Ling Soo...
Friday, February 14, 2014

The Golden Age of Magic - In Bronze

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I have posted many statues, sculptures, carvings, figurines and busts of magicians. But now it's time for the finest renditions of ...
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Monday, April 8, 2013

Chung Ling Soo's Warehouse

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Back in 2010, I wrote a short piece about Chung Ling Soo's House in London and I mentioned that he had a warehouse in the back but t...
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Chung Ling Soo's House

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According to the The Glorious Deception , by Jim Steinmeyer, he gives an address for the house that William Ellsworth Robinson owned when he...
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Thursday, November 18, 2010

Houdini in Washington D.C.

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  On January 12, 1922, Houdini hung upside down outside of Keith’s Vaudeville Theatre on 15th Street in Washington D.C (first photo). Th...
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Sunday, November 14, 2010

Chung Ling Soo

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Here is another of my profile pieces. This time it's Chung Ling Soo, the fake Chinese Conjuror. I say fake because his real name was Wi...