Word: floto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...means the greatest part of it. The large, childish Tammon is given as much space, and every line about him is worth reading. There is no more amusing tale than that of Tammen and his struggles to breed a baby elephant for his circus, the Sells-Floto; and the final fate of the last, stuffed, baby pachyderm, which Tammen kept in a case in the Post offices, is told with fine pathos. The remarkable paper which the partners built comes in likewise for a good share of the author's effort. Here in relation of the almost unbelievable productions...
...still flickering violently, he was offered $150 a week to appear in Selig films. Followed, mostly for Fox, some 180 Wild Westerns with 100 more or less leading ladies playing opposite him. Actor Mix retired from screen work in 1926, traveled abroad with his horse, returned to join Sells-Floto Circus at a salary reputedly $15,000 per week. Besides his circus appearances, his newsworthy activities have since included getting divorced by Mrs. Victoria Forde Mix, who charged mental cruelty, "loudness in public," pistol twirling; getting sued for $13,000 by one John Berress of Minneapolis, who charged that while...
...addition of a half-dozen more elephants, one rhinoceros, a few other animals and several acts. This year of Depression the Ringling-owned Robinson and Sparks circuses will not perform. Their properties have to some extent been apportioned among the four other shows: Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey, Sells-Floto, Hagenbeck-Wallace and Al G. Barnes. Throughout the spring and summer these four circuses will play an average of five days a week (twice a day) throughout the U. S., the big show in the large cities of the East and South, if the South is not too poor (last year...
Circus Suit Sells-Floto Circus and Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey last week faced charges that they have conspired to create a monopoly. Plaintiff in the suit, and asking for $1.040,000 damages, was Miller Brothers 101 Ranch show group. Alleged monopolistic acts: defacement of plaintiff's advertising, spreading of malicious rumors, the enticement of Cinemactor Tom Mix away from Miller Bros, to Sells-Floto at $12,000 per week...
...Chicago last week. It was, instead, a young man who is vexed with John Ringling. It was 32-year-old President Sidney Nicholas Strotz (rhymes with "boats") of Chicago Stadium Corp.-out to beat John Ringling at his own game. Last autumn Mr. Ringling refused to book his Sells-Floto circus at the Chicago Stadium for this spring. Instead he took the older, smaller Chicago Coliseum, for a generation the South Wabash Avenue scene of circus in Chicago before the handsome greystone stadium was built on Madison Street. To teach John Ringling a lesson, young President Strotz announced that...