Great Goldfish Mystery

This advert from Stanyon’s Magic Magazine Volume 1 issue 1 dated October 1900 is by Professor Lionel Arthur and is an opportunity to buy the secret behind Chung Ling Soo’s Great Goldfish Mystery effect. Here’s what it says:

The marvellous Chinese Trick, lately causing such a sensation at Alhambra Theatre, of catching live gold fish in the air with a rod. Performed by Robinson and by Ching Ling Foo in America.
Prices on Application.
Professional SECRET ONLY (very limited number), England P.O. 66, America 2 Dollars. Right of refusing undesirable applications is reserved, in such cases money returned. Any Chinese act supplied. PROF. LIONEL ARTHUR, 2 Isis Street, Oxford.I have a personal interest in Chung Ling Soo, and I’d like to find out more about Professor Arthur. If anyone has any information please get in touch.

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