Imro Fox

Imro Fox (May 21, 1862 – March 4, 1910) was a German-born American chef who became a headlining stage magician billed as the "comic conjuror".

"[1] Isidore Fuchs was born in Bromberg, Kingdom of Prussia and immigrated to America seventeen years later aboard the steamship Suabia.

[3] Fox became known as the "comic conjuror" with the unique talent of performing rapid-fire sleight of hand tricks as he peppered his audience with a string of fast-paced, often self-deprecating, one-liners such as: "Why is my head like heaven?—because there is no parting there.

Suddenly amid the crash of thunder and a blinding flash of light, the wizard's cave is metamorphosed into a twentieth century drawing room, fitted up for a conjuring séance.

In 1896 Fox was a member of Frank Dumont's, The Rainmakers, a traveling variety show, and a year or so later joined fellow magicians Servais Le Roy and Frederick Powell in an act called The Great Triple Alliance, dubbed by the press as "the three crowned princes of the mystic world".

He had retired the evening before after giving a performance at the Keith-Proctor Theatre, but returned to the lobby a few hours later, partially dressed and asking for a doctor.

Fox as the Sorcerer - NYPL Digital Gallery