Stars of Vaudeville #354: Long Tack Sam
I’m afraid I did an injustice to Long Tack Sam in my book No Applause, implying that he was just one of a whole line of copycats of Ching Ling Foo. A more accurate reading would be this: Ching started a craze in the U.S. for Chinese magicians. Long (unlike many) was a legitimate Chinese magician who’d [...]