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George Lytton is famed in Chicago for having founded the 44-piece Business Men's Symphony Orchestra which gives about six concerts a year. He plays the bass viol and owns 28, keeping two handy in his office. But boxing, not music, is his real hobby. Now a sparse man of 58, his muscles are as tough as they were when 40 years ago he started to work for his father and installed a gymnasium next to 'his office. For some years he was considered amateur heavyweight champion and boxed with such fighters as Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons...
...restriction of choice is fairly apparent in cases where an experienced stenographer who can translate German is wanted, or a musician who can play the base viol. Many do not appreciate that the hands of the Office are just as tightly bound in instances much more common. Few realize that often employers are very particular about securing experienced waiters, for example. On the surface it would seem that any man could wait table. Only last week, however, a call came from a boarding house manager for a fall, erect, neat man with a clear complexion and at least two years...
...that adorned the posters were the partners. At an early family conference it was decided that Brothers Gus and Henry had better just work on a salary. Al was the ringmaster, Otto sold the tickets, Charles wrote the mouth-filling polysyllabic advertisements. John, who used to play the bass viol and drive the lead wagon over dusty prairie roads, became the router, the greatest transportation expert in the circus business*. He lost his brothers and his mustache. He absorbed Barnum & Bailey and in time every important circus in the U. S. so that today every trained lion in the country...
...uncontrollable fear. As the violins swept up in the frail music of a waltz, they all sat still as statues. Saxophone and trumpet made them run and jump. Then, when the musicians stopped, the monkeys shrilled, squealed, jabbered, in a frenzy of fantastic enthusiasm. At last the bass viol boomed; then all the little monkeys, blinking and peering, pushed their sad faces against the bars...
Which last two genres suggest his true ability. Mr. Butler is a gentle, observing, whimsical soul who has taken to literature for the same reason people take to playing the base viol. In creating, and he sometimes does, the atmosphere of trot fishing, poker playing, whimsy, he amuses. But the amusement has the solidity and permanence of prune whip. Also one always realizes that prunes are the basic element in the concoction...