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The hanging would be accompanied by music.
As they were on the theater stage, the batten was lowered from the fly loft above so the nooses could be tossed over the metal bar. This had the strange effect of lowering a piece of painted scenery from the last show that had been staged at the opera house. A hit from England, brought over by the ambition and good taste of Mrs. Jerrine Reed herself. The play was called Pygmalion.