Imro Fox

Imro Fox was Germanborn 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 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 nations 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.

Source: Wikipedia