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The Story Through Its Notes, Letters, and Documents Is It the Ghost? Moncharmin’s Memoirs of a Manager ‘A grievous accident spoiled the little party which MM. Debienne and Poligny gave to celebrate their retirement. I was in the manager’s office, when Mercier, the acting-manager, suddenly came darting in. He seemed half mad and told me that the body of a scene-shifter had been found hanging in the third cellar under the stage, between a farm-house and a scene from the ‘Roi de Lahore.’ I shouted: ‘“Come and cut him down!” ‘By the time I had rushed down the staircase and the Jacob’s ladder, the man was no longer hanging from his rope!’ ‘It was just after the ballet; and leaders and dancing-girls lost no time in taking their precautions against the evil eye.’ |
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