Word: styx
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Styx Club...
...Houseboat on the Styx. Thirty years ago, John Kendrick Bangs wrote stories about a yachting party near Hell. Producer Ned Jakobs thought that these stories deserve to be perpetuated on the stage, with song-&-dancing. That is the purpose of The Houseboat on the Styx, that and moneymaking. Adam, Barnum, Captain Kidd. Sherlock Holmes and Cleopatra; Mrs. Noah, Sappho, Charon, Josephine and Sir Walter Raleigh-all the Bangsian characters come on deck to sing somewhat Gilbertian songs and utter up-to-the-hour Times Squarese. Blanche Ring as Queen Elizabeth shouts, when someone offers her a drink: "Swine...
...Club, Hasty Pudding-Institute of 1770. Instrumental Clubs, Iroquois Club, Kex Club, Liberal Club, Musical Clubs, Pen and Brush Club, Phi Delta Kappa, Phi Kappa Epsilon, Pierian Sodality, Porcellian Club. Harvard Flying Club, American Legion, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Alpha Mu, Signet Society, Speakers' Club Haples Club Stylus Club, Styx Club, Tau Epsilon...
...Sigma Club Phi Kappa Epsilon Club Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity Phoenix Club Argo Club Pi Eta Society Delphic Club Porcellian Club Digamma Club S. A. E. Fraternity D. U. Club S. K. Club Falcon Club Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity Fly Club Spee Club Fox Club Stylus Club Iroquois Club Styx Club K. G. X. Club Tau Delta Phi Fraternity Kappa Sigma Trident Club Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity
...limbo of provincial stock productions. So his philosophy of rat trap existence, a philosophy which saw nothing in heaven or hell but the doubtful happiness of "carrying on"--and "There's no discharge in the war," now suffers the vapid appreciation of stock audiences. And the Copley crosses the Styx...