11 Facts About Imro Fox

Imro Fox was a German-born American chef who became a headlining stage magician billed as the "comic conjuror".

Imro Fox began working as a chef at hotels in New York City and later at a hotel in Washington DC popular with vaudeville players engaged at the nation's capital.

In Some Magicians I Have Met, Henry Ridgely Evans described Imro Fox's opening act as follows:.

Imro Fox begins his incantations, whereupon hosts of demons appear, who dance about the caldron.

In 1896 Imro 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".

Imro Fox turns the problems of legerdemain into a happy pastime and entertaining half-hour.

Imro Fox's personality is perhaps the most striking part of bis performance, although his natural humor and the inimitable way in which he says, "marvelous," is irresistibly funny.

Mr Imro Fox is a favorite in Europe, although he is an American, and this is his first tour in the West.

Imro Fox died in the early morning hours of March 4,1910, in the lobby of the Hotel Martin in Utica, New York.

Imro Fox 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.

Imro Fox was survived by Pauline Abrams, his wife for nearly twenty-two years and was interred at the Oheb Sholom Cemetery in New Jersey, where a little over a year later some one-hundred members of the United Magicians Association of America gathered to witness the unveiling of a granite monument built to commemorate his life.