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Lament for a City, by Henry Beetle Hough. An unsentimental novel by an aging New England editor, illustrating that the soul of a town is its newspaper and that both can be sold down the Styx...
Beauty & the Bestial. The swan-dappled Avon may have been the Styx to a London actor, but the best touring companies played in Stratford. Englamoured by them, Shakespeare, some time around 1587, left for the big town and joined an acting company. As actor and playwright, Will was a quick study...
...Styx, the sacred river!" sang the soprano, and flinging aside her dagger, collapsed on the stage. As the curtain fell, buxom Eileen Farrell hoisted herself to her feet, trudged back to her dressing room and sighed: "When I'm through this role, I'll be ready for the paddy wagon...
Macabre's Castle has no monopoly on the city or the styx. All over the U.S., promoters last week were filling lobbies with coffins, skeletons, papier-mâché tombstones, skulls with blinking eyes. "Nurses" took patrons' blood pressure, gave them "Courage Cocktails" of tomato juice and Tabasco sauce. Red footprints led down sidewalks to theaters, and bloodstains decorated the walls...
...accolade from T.S. Eliot: "A most delightful piece of work. I enjoyed it immensely." A bit of the original Greek retained in Young's Puddocks as well as Murray's Frogs-the croak of the frog chorus that mocks Dionysus as Charon ferries him across the Styx...