What’s your first name?

Hi! My name is Millard. Often when I say that people ask, “Miller and what is your first name?” I then explain that Millard is my first name and Lichter is my last name. So to keep things simple just call me Mill or Magic-Mill. I have been performing restaurants and close up for many years but you probably have never heard of me because that's the way I intended it. Why? Because over 45 years ago I developed an interest in magic and the first magician I met was Ed Marlo working in an arcade that sold magic. He worked upstairs in a secret room called the pro shop and Al Stevenson worked the counter on the main floor selling to the street trade. Week after week I kept getting together with Ed not knowing he was a world-famous card man. Until one night Ed told me that “he had major problems with magicians stealing material from him or coming to town to prove they were the fastest gun in the West”. So I decided I did not want to play that game and kept a very low profile in the magic community. In fact at a Milwaukee WI convention I did some magic with my name badge blank and a reporter from the Top's magazine wrote it up referring to me as the mysterious card expert from Chicago. When Ed read the Top’s article he immediately realized who the mysterious expert was and started laughing. Through Ed I got to meet many magicians. As a joke Ed often introduced me to them as Charlie Miller but over the years he always referred to me as “The Kid”.