Floto may refer to:
A circus is a traveling company of performers that may include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, and other novelty acts.
Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form of Germanic names beginning in aud-, an element meaning "wealth, prosperity".
A screamer is a circus march intended to stir up the audience during the show.
Frederick Alton Jewell, was a prolific musical composer who wrote over 100 marches and screamers, including:
The Hagenbeck–Wallace Circus was a circus that traveled across America in the early part of the 20th century. At its peak, it was the second-largest circus in America next to Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. It was based in Peru, Indiana.
John Nicholas Ringling was an American entrepreneur who is the best known of the seven Ringling brothers, five of whom merged the Barnum & Bailey Circus with their own Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows to create a virtual monopoly of traveling circuses and helped shape the modern circus. In addition to owning and managing many of the largest circuses in the United States, he was also a rancher, a real estate developer and art collector. He was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in 1987.
Otto Griebling was a German-born circus clown who performed for many years with the Cole Brothers and Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circuses. He was one of four clowns given the title Master Clown by Irvin Feld.
Ringling may refer to:
Walter Paul "Woody" English was an American composer, conductor, and tubist.
The Sells Floto Circus was a combination of the Floto Dog & Pony Show and the Sells Brothers Circus that toured with sideshow acts in the United States and Canada during the early 1900s.
Frederick Gilmer Bonfils was an American businessman and publisher who, alongside Harry Heye Tammen, owned The Denver Post, the Kansas City Post, and the Sells Floto Circus.
Jerry Blake was an American jazz alto saxophonist and clarinetist.
The American Circus Corporation consisted of the Sells-Floto Circus, the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, the John Robinson Circus, the Sparks Circus, and the Al G. Barnes Circus. It was owned by Jerry Mugivan, Bert Bowers and Ed Ballard. They sold the company in 1929 to John Nicholas Ringling for $1.7 million. With that acquisition, Ringling owned virtually every traveling circus in America.
Al G. Barnes Circus was an American circus run by Alpheus George Barnes Stonehouse that operated from 1898 to 1938.
Sells Brothers Circus was a circus founded by Ephraim, William, Lewis and Peter Sells in Columbus, Ohio, United States.
Glen Gordon "Frosty" Little was a circus clown who served with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for over 20 years. He was one of only four clowns ever to have been given the title "Master Clown" by the Ringling organization.
John H. Robinson created the John Robinson Circus, whose winter quarters were in Terrace Park, Ohio.
Sells may refer to:
Heinrich "Harry" Heye Tammen was an American journalist, publisher, and businessman. He worked alongside Frederick Gilmer Bonfils and co-owned The Denver Post, the Kansas City Post, and the Sells Floto Circus.
Otto Clement Floto was an American sports journalist and sports promoter who worked as a sportswriter for The Denver Post. Floto was the namesake for the Sells Floto Circus, which Floto promoted.