Let’s Get a Husband. The heroine in the novel was the young wife of twenty-seven who had been married five years. This was Harrietta’s part. In the book there had been a young girl, too — a saccharine miss of seventeen who was the minor love interest. This was Lydia Lissome’s part. Slowly it dawned on Harrietta that things had been nightmarishly tampered with in the film version, and that the change in name was the least of the indignities to which the novel had been subjected.

It took Harrietta some time to realize this because they were not taking the book scenes in their sequence. They took them according to light, convenience, location. Indoor scenes were taken in one group, so that the end of the story might often be the first to be filmed.

For a week