Meet Candy Talma!

  Talma was best known as the Queen of Coins, but she's also known for being the wife of Servais Le Roy!  She started out as an assistant, first to a mind reader, then to Servais Le Roy, whom she married.  Then eventually she proved to be so talented at sleight of hand that her husband helped her develop her skills until she was performing as a star herself, in a three person troupe with him and their humorous friend Bosco.  Personally, I think she was secretly planning to take over the act, kick both of them out, and hire Rudolph Valentino to be her assistant, but they probably found out just in time and there went the whole plan.  But I could be wrong.