all around her. Next, she removes her brassiere, and dances bare-breasted. After a while, the snakes are removed. She then approaches the people sitting nearest to the stage, who are normally the elderly big towkays (Hokkien: business owner). She takes an old man's spectacles, rubs it against her private parts, and then gives it back to him. Some of her acts are very crude. With her legs spread wide open, she peruses her most intimate parts to: stuff a banana inside; open the cap of a Coca-Cola bottle; pull out a string of razor blades that was inserted in one by one; shoot a dart at a balloon high up. She then tells some jokes. Sometimes, she will ask a Caucasian (because she knows they are more sporting than the shy, local guys) to go up on stage, and gets him to strip her or any of her performers. She slowly rolls down her panties, bit by bit, until the audience can have a peek at her pubic hair. The crowd goes hysterical, and eventually, she removes her panties, and dances and sways to the beat. The music then slows down, and she walks around, and then off she goes backstage. Chan brought her striptease act to Kuala Lumpur, Penang, and Alor Star, always donating part of her proceeds to charity, benefiting children and old folks' homes, institutions for the blind, and tuberculosis patients, earning another moniker of "Charity XQueen". Circus stunts In 1954, Chan upped the ante for revues by introducing circus stunts that included: her python-wrestling act; bending iron rods, stuck to the base of her throat; carrying a man on her shoulders; placing planks across her body, and having motorcycles ride over her. Her stunts made her famous, and she took her act around the world, including Germany, France, Britain, Australia, and Indonesia. In July 1957, Chan embraced Islam when she married Indonesian Mohamed Nazier Kahar, and in accordance with Muslim rites in Singapore, changed her name to Rosminah binti Abdullah. Her marriage lasted three years, and bore no offspring. She subsequently married a company manager Chong Yew Meng in 1962, and had a son, but the marriage again failed in 1965. Her fourth marriage with a musician Jimmy Chew in 1965 later yielded a son. While her husbands may have come and gone, one man had remained a constant influence. Lee Kai Hong, a Chinese-newspaper journalist-property