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...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...
Suit Won. By Col. Zack T. Miller, owner of the 101 Ranch circus; against Cinemactor Tom Mix. Col. Miller charged that Actor Mix had agreed to appear in his circus, had joined instead the Sells-Floto circus. Col. Miller asked $325,000 damages...
Sued. Tom Mix, onetime film actor, now a Sells Floto circusman: for $13,000 (about one week's salary), by one John Berress, Minneapolis auto dealer. Charge: Mix, drunk, pounced upon Berress, shook his fist, threatened injuries...