![]() ![]() Dea died on March 18 at an assisted living center in Las Vegas, her caregivers told local news outlets. In between those two splashes of publicity, Gloria Metzner adopted the stage name Gloria Dea, made history in Las Vegas, had a few tabloid-ish moments in a brief film career, faded into obscurity for a half-century or so, and then, in her final years, was rediscovered and celebrated by her fellow magicians. “Anything with sleight-of-hand and billiard balls I liked,” she said almost a century later, in a 2022 interview with KVVU-TV of Las Vegas on the occasion of her 100th birthday. An accompanying photograph showed Gloria holding three balls between the fingers of her right hand, a moment from a trick in which she would make the balls appear and disappear like, well, magic. “Seven-year-old Gloria Metzner, 3607 Park Boulevard, is the youngest working magician in the world,” The Oakland Tribune of California declared in a November 1929 article about her. ![]()
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