Frank Ducrot: Brooklyn's Favorite Necromantique Entertainer

Owner of the Martinka magic shop in New York City, Frank Ducrot (1872-1939) was also a Chautauqua and Vaudeville performer. Ducrot started his career early as “The Boy Magician” and would continue to use that moniker well past the age of 50. It was in the 1920s that he took over his favorite childhood stop, the Martinka-Hornmann Magic Co, created after a merger with the Otto Hornmann Magic Company orchestrated by Harry Houdini.