[Merton of the Movies by Harry Leon Wilson]@TWC D-Link bookMerton of the Movies CHAPTER X 35/39
Yet, almost as if from habit, he heard himself asking, "Is--do you happen to know if Beulah Baxter is married ?" "Baxter married? Sure! I should think you'd know it from the way that Sig Rosenblatt bawls everybody out." "Who is he ?" "Who is he? Why, he's her husband, of course--he's Mr.Beulah Baxter." "That little director up on the platform that yells so ?" This unspeakable person to be actually the husband of the wonder-woman, the man he had supposed she must find intolerable even as a director.
It was unthinkable, more horrible, somehow, than her employment of a double.
In time he might have forgiven that--but this! "Sure, that's her honest-to-God husband.
And he's the best one out of three that I know she's had.
Sig's a good scout even if he don't look like Buffalo Bill.
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