Boris Karloff - Chung Ling Soo
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Boris Karloff - Chung Ling Soo

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 29, 20264 min
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This is Boris Karloff speaking. I'm here with a story for you from the files of the Reader's Digest.

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The strange story begins in New York 60 years ago.

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This is Boris Karloff speaking. I'm here with a story for you from the files of the Reader's Digest. Who killed Chung-Ling Su? The coroner's verdict was death by misadventure, but the fate of magician Chung-Ling Su was almost certainly no accident. The strange story begins in New York 60 years ago. A certain William Ellsworth Robinson, a magician by profession, was broke.

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Far less skillful men than he were getting all the jobs, and Robinson decided to try a desperate gamble. And so, in May 1900, a glittering-eyed man with a cue and flowing oriental raiment registered at a fashionable hotel in London.

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With him there traveled a diminutive slant-eyed maiden. They called themselves the illustrious Chu Ling Su and his assistant Susie Sien. But back home in America they'd just been Plain Bill and Dotty Robinson. After just one performance at the famed Alhambra,

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