Ray-Mond

Ray-Mond
Born	Raymond Monroe Corbin September 29, 1916 Medford (near Westminster), Maryland
Died	July 04, 2003 (age 86) Jacksonville, Florida
Categories	Books by Ray-Mond

Ray-Mond (1916-2003) , born Raymond Monroe Corbin, began a professional performer as a teenager with Dr. Miles medicine show.

Biography

By 18 he was working as a mentalist-mindreader act as "Rajah Ramo". At the age of 22, he was performing stage magic in Vaudeville. He would bill himself as the "Aristocrat of Deception" after seeing a Hellmann's Mayonnaise truck advertising its product as the "Aristocrat of Mayonnaise."

He toured Europe as the magician with the "Yankee Doodlers" Ninth Air Force entertainment team in World War II.

Opened his Ray-Mond's Studio of Magic in Westminster, Maryland in around 1946.

In late 1940s, he started touring with his illusion show and then later as a ghost show with his assistant wife Doris Mae Corbin (whom he had married in 1944).

He founded the Ray-Mond Assembly S.A.M. in Westminster, Maryland, was one of the organizing founders of the Society of Young Magicians and served as the National SAM President (1984-85). He was a Silver Star member of the Inner Magic Circle, London, England and a member of the Order of Merlin Excalibur in the International Brotherhood of Magicians.

He wrote articles for New Tops and Legerdemain.

Ray-Mond was also elected into the Society of American Magicians Hall of Fame in 1990.

Awards

• 1965 - MAES Best Effect.

Books

• The Giant Illustrated Book of Magic Tricks (1981).