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== Dick Berry - ''"Marko the Magician"''''' ==
== Dick Berry - ''"Marko the Magician"''''' ==


  is a professional magician and illusionist who toured as an assistant to [[Blackstone]] from 1948-50.<ref>Cover: Marko The Magician (Richard Berry), Challenge Blindfold Drive [[Genii 1949 January]]</ref>
  Richard L. "Dick" Berry is a professional magician and collector and builder of illusions who illusionist who has performed in eight decades.<ref>Cover: Marko The Magician (Richard Berry), Challenge Blindfold Drive [[Genii 1949 January]]</ref>


== Biography ==
== Biography ==

Revision as of 20:26, 20 January 2015

Marko

Cover of Genii (1949)
BornRichard Berry
Jan 1 1930
Decatur, Illinois

NationalityAmerican
Flourished1940s - 2000s
Known forPrince Marko, Fantom Follies, Theatre of Illusion, Circus World Museum


Dick Berry - "Marko the Magician"

Richard L. "Dick" Berry is a professional magician and collector and builder of illusions who illusionist who has performed in eight decades.[1]

Biography

As a young boy, he worked with Blackstone the Great. With his wife Phyllis, who also toured with Blackstone, they designed and built a long running revue, called the "Theatre of Illusion" for the Circus World Museum in Wisconsin. The show was reviewed in New Tops, June 1972

He was a member of the IBM Decatur Demons' Club, Ring No. 14 in Decator, Illinois in the 1940s and 50s.

In 1990s he was living in Orlando, Florida.[2]

References

  1. Cover: Marko The Magician (Richard Berry), Challenge Blindfold Drive Genii 1949 January
  2. MUM, July 1992