Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Rice Bros. Circus 1936 #3


Scan000010930, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

For the senior citizens of the day, we see the "Original Dan Rice Circus".

Posted by Buckles at 3/05/2008 06:12:00 AM

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Looks like the variation here is "Sell's," sort of like "Howe's" instead of "Howes," as done by the likes of Mugivan & Bowers. Maybe Brydon was concerned about the Gump coming after him for trademark infringement, as in 1935 Hagenbeck-Wallace and Forepaugh-Sells had toured, thereby keeping the title out of the public domain after 24 years of non-use. Back in the early 1900s, the Ringlings went to court against Sells-Floto over the use of the Sells title. I recall that they couldn't stop Willy Sells and Tammen & Bonfils from using his own last name [as in 1891, too, when he had Sells & Rentfrow), but they couldn't use portraits of the Sells brothers in their advertising. Tammen later wrote the Ringlings asking what to do with all the paper they had printed--but their response isn't preserved.

05 March, 2008 09:31

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