Word: floto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...signed last year with the bankers with whom his ancestral tents were then in pawn. Mr. North retorted that Mr. Whitehead had stubbornly declined to face depression facts. Meantime, shrewd Mr. North was reported preparing a neat finesse. To the Ringling-owned, non-union Al G. Barnes-Sells-Floto Circus in the West would go such attractions as Gargantua the Great, the wire-walking Naittos, the Flying Concellos, perhaps Mr. Buck. With them would go the Ringling Big Top, upping the smaller show's capacity from...
...that unless help came soon the animals would be mercifully killed in lethal gas chambers. At that, money began to pour in. Actors Katharine Hepburn, Richard Dix, Stuart Erwin, oldtime silent-film Adventuress Kathlyn Williams, others donated checks from $10 to $100. Some 700 animals in the Barnes-Sells-Floto Circus were put on limited rations, the savings given Zoopark. The first of three Sunday benefit performances at the Zoo brought $1,000. Los Angeles schoolchildren scraped together $9 in pennies and dimes. At week's end a new flood-of paying visitors -brought the cheering prospect that...
Colossus. The last circus that tried to slide into Manhattan under the Ringling shadow was Sells-Floto. "Mr. John" stifled this competition in a characteristic fashion...
...bought up not only Sells-Floto but the other four circuses-Hagenbeck-Wallace, John Robinson, Sparks, Al G. Barnes- grouped with Sells-Floto in American Circus Corp. The property comprised 150 railroad cars, 2,000 animals, 4,500 people...
...gambler, Robert ("Silver Bob") Alexander, also opened a gambling place at Miami. After a time Ballard withdrew from the Association. In the same era he plunged into the circus business. He bought Hagenbeck & Wallace Circus which was about to go on the rocks, soon picked up other circuses - Sells-Floto, John Robinson, Golmar Bros., Al Barnes. He became Ringling Brothers' biggest rival. Before Depression hit he sold his circuses to the Ringlings, was rated 30 times a millionaire...