A CONJURER'S PROPERTIES
The property of Chung Linsx Soo. the illusionist, who met with a fatal accident on the stage just prior to coming out to fulfil an engagement to Ben and John Fuller, is to he sold by auction. The particulars of the sale (says 'The Times') read oddly. The illusion apparatus includes "lantern, levitation, disappearing, and other fakes." There' are " papier rnache" life-sized lions and elephants, the Holy Bible printed in Chinese, four volumes of an Enslish-Chinose dictionary painted Chinese street scenes, a set of marionettes, a, heavily carved Chinese lacquered mantelpiece, a "death-chair illusion" (in deal box), a "bridal chamber illusion ' (m crate), a "nicelv-made and japanned 'vanishing bench rirl' in wood case ' and " a Pretty Pollv illusion." with wooden cage. There is also included in the sale some property of the "Great Lafayette, who was killed in the musicnnll fire at Edinburgh. This consists of three crates, containing, among other things, "well-painted profile horses surmounted by Guardsmen," and "a. large quantity of soldiers' heads and ■shoulder* with bayonets." '
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Evening Star, Issue 17548, 31 December 1920, Page 9
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172A CONJURER'S PROPERTIES Evening Star, Issue 17548, 31 December 1920, Page 9
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