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About Servais Le Roy
- Servais Le Roy (4 May 1865 – 2 June 1953 ) was a Belgian magician, illusion designer and businessman.
- He is known for the act Le Roy, Talma and Bosco and as the inventor of the classic levitation illusion Asrah the Floating Princess.Le Roy was born in Spa, Belgium.
- He began his career in Belgium but later moved to London, where he established a supply house for illusions and scenery.
- At one time he performed with German-born illusionist Imro Fox and Frederick Eugene Powell as The Triple Alliance.
- However he is best known as a performer for the long-running act he developed with his wife Talma and Leon Bosco.
- Working as "Le Roy - Talma - Bosco" they were sometimes also billed as The Comedians de Mephisto Co.
- Talma (whose real name was Mary Ford), specialised in sleight of hand and was known as a brilliant manipulator of coins.
- Bosco, who was a rotund man, played a buffoon character.
- Although the act was very much a partnership to which all three contributed as magicians, Servais Le Roy sometimes received additional headline billing.
- According to William Rauscher's biography, Monarch of Mystery, Bosco was played by no less than nine different performers over the years.
- Servais Le Roy and Talma first performed the Asrah levitation in London in 1914.
- In this trick, Talma would lie on a couch and Servais would cover her with a sheet.
- He would then appear to make her rise into the air, pass a large hoop over her floating body, and finally pull away the sheet to reveal that she had vanished.
- Le Roy is also credited with developing other respected tricks and illusions, including Where do the ducks go?, Modern Cabinet, the Palanquin and the Costume Trunk..
- He is too the first illusionist magician to take an interest in the piano as a magic object. Le Roy later put his own show into storage and accepted a contract from Horace Goldin to front one of several companies that were touring with Goldin's show, featuring the then sensational Sawing a woman in half illusion.He died in 1953 in Keansburg, New Jersey, USA.
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