Indirect Conquest

filmtrivia:

Chung Ling Soo was a stage character created by a Caucasian American man, William Ellsworth Robinson, who disguised himself as a Chinese man to cash in on audiences’ enthusiasm for the exotic. Robinson lived as Chung, never breaking character while in public. He died in March 1918 when a bullet catch trick went wrong. “Oh my God. Something’s happened. Lower the curtain.” were both his last words and the first English he had spoken on stage in 19 years.