- She fell in love with Bill Jansen, Dante's son. When Bill was tragically killed in a motorcycle accident in Brisbane, she became not just an assistant but also one of the family.
- She redesigned costumes, sets and music, vetted staff and in quick time become co-star of the largest touring show in the world at the time - the Dante Mystery Revue.
- She was born Loretta Miller in 1914, the start of World War 1. But even way back then, a world away, she was someone else - someone known as Miki Miller. The Moi-Yo ( ('rare flower' in Chinese) came later, in Asia where Miller was readily mispronounced. Dante pounced on the exotic tone and she was renamed.
- She first met Dante ( a professional magician known under the name Dante the Magician ) while still in her late teens when she was appearing in a musical revue in Melbourne. Dante had decided to recruit an Australian girl as an assistant after, in his words, "he saw in Melbourne more beautiful women per square block than he had seen in any other part of the World".
- A public art mural of Miller's face was created by artist Michael Cassar in June 2016 on the corner of James St and Minns Lane, Geelong.
- She once estimated that she had been sawed in half around 11,800 times during her career.
- She features in the 2008 documentary movie, Women in Boxes, which explores the vital role of assistants in magic.
- She was often billed as "Australia's Most Beautiful Woman".
- Claudia Cassidy, a society writer in England, came to the show many times and in the first write-up she said, 'That girl folds up like a piece of Chinese silk'.
- After attending a ladies college in Geelong, a young Loretta became a dancer at the Princess Theatre in Melbourne, living for a time at the Hotel Windsor.
- Although Moi-Yo was clear throughout her career that she was not a magician and was proud to call herself an assistant, there was no doubt she brought considerable design acumen to Dante's show. The show had a core of 35 performers and backstage staff and would collect additional team members in each country it visited.
- Under her stage name Moi-Yo, she would go on tour with Dante throughout Asia, Russia, Europe and America in shows such as his renowned Sim-Sala-Bim. She would be his leading assistant for the next two decades.
- In 1993, Moi-Yo said "I trained all the female assistants. I also helped with the wardrobe, lighting and scenery. You name it, I did it".
- She was on stage from the age of four, spending her childhood performing in ballet and Scottish dancing competitions with her sister throughout regional Victoria.
- Miller became highly regarded among professional magic performers and is widely cited as one of the all-time great magic assistants.
- In 1993 she received the Dragon Award presented by the J. Marberger Stuart Foundation.
- She was an Australian entertainer who toured the world as a magician's assistant and illusionist of the stage magician Dante (a.k.a. Harry Jansen), during the 1930s and 1940s.
- She dated Dante's son, Bill, and went on to work with Dante, staying with him for the rest of his performing career. She very quickly became his main assistant and an integral part of his show 'Sim Sala Bim'.
- It was while on tour in Japan that she was reportedly christened "Moi-Yo San" which press of the day declared meant rare or 'beautiful flower'. Her daughter Kininmonth says her mother always believed it translated as 'beautiful butterfly', while other reports gave it Chinese origins. Regardless of its true provenance, she enjoyed its exotic sound and Loretta would become Moi-Yo from now on.
- Moi-Yo Miller was the oldest living magician's assistant.
- She added so much more class to the whole program of Dante that it really became something completely different. Vaudeville left and it then became a show of illusions.
- Since she was a minor, Dante assumed guardianship. She remained loyal to the show until 1955.
- Dante, to his credit, was quick to recognise Moi-Yo's importance to his show. In an article in Woman, March 24, 1941 under the headline "Australian beauty stuns US theatre goers", Dante described his leading assistant as the "leading illusionista in the world - the combination of everything: of rhythm, artistry, grace and poise".
- When war broke out they received just six hours notice to pack up and get out of Hitler's Berlin. According to her daughter Kininmonth, the troupe was tipped off that borders were about to close by a member of the SS who had taken a shine to her mother. Dante's company fled to Sweden and Moi-Yo would later recall that "we left Berlin with most of the show sitting on the rail siding and most of that we didn't get back again. It had to be rebuilt.".
- Dante's show would be transformed under Moi-Yo's tasteful eye. The showgirl costumes were replaced with elegant evening gowns and the circus style music retired in favour of more classical waltzes. She had a knack of knowing how to incorporate the music with those costumes.
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