Imro Fox (May 21, 1862 â€" March 4, 1910) was German-born American
chef who became a headlining stage magician billed as the "comic
conjuror". He was active between 1880 and 1910 and was known for the
line, "Mahvelous! Everything I do is mahvelous."Isidore Fuchs was born
in Bromberg, Germany, (today Bydgoszcz, Poland) and immigrated to
America seventeen years later aboard the steamship Suabia. Fuchs
eventually settled in New York City where he became a citizen in 1888.
He began working as a chef at hotels in New York City and later at a
hotel in Washington D.C. popular with vaudeville players engaged at
the nation's capital. It was at the latter that one day in 1880 he was
approached by the head of a vaudeville company in need of a magician.
Theirs was unfit to take to the stage and the hotel management had
recommended Fuchs, then an amateur magician with no stage experience.
The engagement proved satisfactory and within a short while Fuchs
began performing as Imro Fox.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?â€"because there is no parting there."In Some Magicians I Have
Met, Henry Ridgely Evans described Fox's opening act as follows:
chef who became a headlining stage magician billed as the "comic
conjuror". He was active between 1880 and 1910 and was known for the
line, "Mahvelous! Everything I do is mahvelous."Isidore Fuchs was born
in Bromberg, Germany, (today Bydgoszcz, Poland) and immigrated to
America seventeen years later aboard the steamship Suabia. Fuchs
eventually settled in New York City where he became a citizen in 1888.
He began working as a chef at hotels in New York City and later at a
hotel in Washington D.C. popular with vaudeville players engaged at
the nation's capital. It was at the latter that one day in 1880 he was
approached by the head of a vaudeville company in need of a magician.
Theirs was unfit to take to the stage and the hotel management had
recommended Fuchs, then an amateur magician with no stage experience.
The engagement proved satisfactory and within a short while Fuchs
began performing as Imro Fox.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?â€"because there is no parting there."In Some Magicians I Have
Met, Henry Ridgely Evans described Fox's opening act as follows:
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