The new Wallis Simpson book looks great! Thanks for the plug re the HKILF and my talk on my Foo bio with Chinese translations (traditional and simplified) coming out this year. But I must note Chung Ling Soo was the "fake Chinese magician" not Ching Ling Foo the subject of my tome. This easily made confusion between "the original Chinese conjurer" was the whole goal of Foo arch rival William Robinson ("Chung Ling Soo") the magician who stole Foo's act to adopt a name so similar to Foo's name. The confusion of the two names was intended and constant and it continues over a hundred years after their deaths.
Hi Paul,
The new Wallis Simpson book looks great! Thanks for the plug re the HKILF and my talk on my Foo bio with Chinese translations (traditional and simplified) coming out this year. But I must note Chung Ling Soo was the "fake Chinese magician" not Ching Ling Foo the subject of my tome. This easily made confusion between "the original Chinese conjurer" was the whole goal of Foo arch rival William Robinson ("Chung Ling Soo") the magician who stole Foo's act to adopt a name so similar to Foo's name. The confusion of the two names was intended and constant and it continues over a hundred years after their deaths.
ha!! yea, I got confused by the two. that devious Robinson!
He was a clever devil!