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LACKSTONE, FAMOUS MAGICIAN, ENDORSES CHIROPRACTICStage Personalities Receive Benefits from Science; Dr. J. C. Danks Gets Testimonial From Exponent of LegerdemainMANY FAMOUS personalities appearing in the headlines of the dailies of the world have at one ime or another received the benefits of Chiropractic. The long list contains the lame of Mahatma Ghandi, the idol of the Cast Indian's, and other famous states-nen.Theatrical personalities have for years lepended upon the science to keep them n shape for the rigors of their daily york. One of the latest of the great raternity of showmen to acknowledge he benefits of the profession is none ther than Blackstone, the internationally amous magician. Mr. Blackstone be-ame a patient of John C. Danks, D.C., Vestemport, Maryland as the result of a ack injury incurred when he endeavored0 aid some workmen who were digging , ditch across his lawn.Publicly Acknowledges BenefitsThe great exponent of legerdemain has lublicly acknowledged the benefits re-eived from Dr. Danks ministrations in letter recently received in the editorial ffices of “The Chiropractor'*. The letter n part is as follows:“A short time ago I tried to help some nen in my home that were digging a itch. I did something to my back that iut me in bed for three days unable to nove. A local doctor had me taped up nd said that I would be that way for nonths. Dr. J. C. Danks came over for . visit, pulled all the tape off of me and ad me walking around inside of an our.”For original and baffling effects, Black-tone ranks in a class by himself. Magic s he performs it is an art to entertain s well as mystify. To master its many amifications requires a strong and ealthy body and a well controlled nerv-us system. Constant Study and prac-ice is necessary and it is a distinct com-liment when a man of his standing in is profession turns to Chiropractic to eep his body and nervous system coor-inated.Famous for “Enchanted Garden”Blackstone brought the famous Hindu ope trick to the American stage and his Enchanted Garden” is well known to he followers of magic. In this trick he aws, with no compunction whatsoever, Dvely damsels in half with a screeching uzz saw, piercete others with sharp light ulbs, and then to the envy of every male1 his audience apparently produces love-blondes from thin air.Dr. Danks has himself had no little ex-erience upon the stage before he took up ’hiropractic as his profession. He early ducated himself as a cartoonist under he tutorship of one of Americans bestJ. C. DANKS. D.C.knowm instructors. Arthurand Leah Bell, two well liked ventriloquists of their day, induced Dr. Danks to appear upon the stage and at their suggestion became a chalk talk entertainer.His ability in this work is vouched for when it is learned that the Keith circuit billed him through this famous vaudeville agency’s theatres in the eastern United States, New England, and Canadian chain as the Greenwich Village Newsboy Cartoonist. Later, while with the Hilliar shows his health began to fail and at the suggestion of one Frank Decker, a juggler with the shows, paid his first visit to a chiropractor.C.O.D.“Yes, that’s the price for two orchestra seats. Want ’em?”“No, I think I’ll take a Mediterranean cruise instead.”“I congratulate your pcor men upon being born to that ancient and honorable degree which renders it necessary that they should devote themselves to hard work.”—Andrew Carnegie.HARRY BLACKSTONESchool that Dr. Danks first met Blackstone, and at the great magician’s suggestion Dr. Danks joined the International Magicians society, better known as the I.B.M.Through his intimate connections with the stage it has been Dr. Danks’ lot to care for many of the notables of this profession since he became a chiropractor. Such notables as Bert Davis, clown of the air, Rodger Williams, the human pipe organ, Frank Van Hoven, thought by many to be the worlds greatest comedy magician, and a score of others have at one time or another received his Chiropractic service.Takes Up ChiropracticThe remarkable results which Chiropractic worked on him so impressed him that he began an investigation of the science which finally led him to the Palmer School of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa, where he enrolled as a student. It was while attending the Palmer
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Davenport Chiropractor
Davenport, Iowa, US
Sun, Sep 01, 1940
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