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Show Perennial 'Flapper' Launched on Career Of Wall Street Deals NEW YORK. Edna Wallace Hopper, who won fame in Flora-dora, Flora-dora, won fame in a new endeavor. en-deavor. She made a lot of mony by being a broker in Wall street. sne saia mere is a muc utiiu in almost everybody in Wall street-ail street-ail that temperament, nerves and excitement. Sometimes I didn't miss the theater a bit." That was the fourth career for Edna Wallace Hopper. As an actress act-ress she was the toast of the Gay Nineties. Later she ran a cosmetics business. Then she trurned to lecturing, lec-turing, touring the country and appearing ap-pearing on radio. Ten years ago she turned to the stock market and traded (for herself) with a brokerage broker-age firm here. She never would admit her age, but everyone regards her as pretty good for a gal in the eighties, or thereabouts. She once startled scientists and newspaper readers by declaring that she would never grow old. To back up her claim, she had three face-lifting operations. opera-tions. The subject of her age always drew a smile. She always contended, con-tended, "I have no age. They've had me all ages, even dead and buried. Nobody has been right. I wouldn't tell for the world. Just so they keep discussing it, I'm any- thing they say." Always dressed "up to the minute," min-ute," her age was a confusing thing to determine. Her figure was a slim, trim 87 pounds and her step sprightly. Laughter came freely and her talk rivaled a teen-ager's. Miss Hopper turned to Wall street after she quit the cosmetic business. busi-ness. "I've always had a flair for finance," she said, although admitting ad-mitting that she learned a great deal from her second husband A. O. Brown, a broker. She was also married to the late DeWolf Hopper. |
