Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Weekly Star, August 23, 1919, p. 8. BRINGS BIG CIRCUS TO OWN HOME TOWN Sells-Floto Show, Headed by H. B. Gentry, Comes Here September 4. NEWS OF THE SHOW WORLD Bloomington is to be visited this summer by one of the biggest circuses on the road-the Sells-Floto circus, which is headed by H. B. Gentry of Bloomington, and which left its winter home 'way out "where the West begins," the Rockies, last April and which has had a great trip since that time, going into Eastern Canada and into the New England states, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, scoring success after success, and now it is coming into this section of the states, this city being selected as one of the show spots and the date is Thursday, September 4. The circus this season has in its great family some of the cleverest performers known to the circus world. There are aerialists, acrobats, contortionists, trapezists, riders galore, doing some of the best work that has ever been seen under the white tops. The Indians of the west have an act which never fails to please. There are also many animal acts and then, the clowns. What would a circus be without the fun-makers? And there are forty of these clever rib-ticklers who are kept busy throughout the performance, always springing something new. Just a glance at the Sells-Floto roster shows such well known circus artists as the Nelsons, the Codonas, the Hobson's, the Hodginis, the Luckeys, the Silverlakes, the Livingstons, the Bon-O-M-r Arabs, the Wells, the Elders, the Rushs, the Stokes, the Kincaids, the Sweeney and Newton troupe, the famous Lloyds and scores of others. A program chockfull of novelties is the offering of these performances. "The Birth of the Rainbow," a spectacular extravaganza, opens the entertainment at each performance, this production employing nearly 1,000 people and 425 animals, and it is one of the greatest "specs" to be seen under the white tops. The doors will open at 1 and 7 o'clock, the band concert starting half an hour later. At 2 and 8 the bugles announce the beginning of the program. Constance T. Shotts, Ed.D., CG(SM) CG and Certified Genealogist are Service Marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by board certificants after periodic evaluations by the Board and the board name is a trademark registered in the US Patent and Trademark Office.