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From the beginning, Hedda was blessed with eternal middle age. She began her show-business career in 1913 as Elda Furry, the plumpish daughter of a Quaker meat dealer in Hollidaysburg, Pa. She had little acting ability -but that little carried her to Broad way, where she met and married Headliner DeWolf Hopper, 32 years her senior. The marriage was a failure. In 1922 they were divorced.* It was her last public failure...
...about Lolly's ("It's a terrible book," said Lolly candidly of her own, "I wrote every word of it"), it is perhaps because it was written with the help of an assistant named James Brough. Hopper-Brough briefly sketch in Hedda's early life-born Elda Furry in Hollidaysburg, Pa., marriage to and divorce from elderly Musical Comedy Star DeWolf Hopper, a so-so career in films, and finally a column in 1938-and then turn to the kind of keyhole chitchat about "mad, gay, heartbreaking" Hollywood that has fueled the Hopper for years...
Rossini: II Signer Bruschino (Elda Ribetti, Luigi Pontiggia; Milan Philharmonic conducted by Ennio Gerelli; Vox). A delightfully melodious little one-act opera, full of musical fun, the usual incredible plot, and some remarkably attractive singing...
...Elda replaced Ina Claire in the road company of The Quaker Girl. The show closed in Buffalo, and as Elda stepped off the milk train in Manhattan, DeWolf Hopper, having just divorced his fourth wife, was waiting on the platform to marry her. From that sensationally popular musical comedy star, Elda acquired a dressing-room knowledge of practically everybody on the stage. She also acquired a son, William DeWolf Jr., and a new first, as well as a new last name. For in their honeymoon days...
...Wolfie," who had some difficulty getting Elda's name straight, used to rub the bloom off their tenderest moments by murmuring into her hair, "Ella," or "Ida," or "Edna," or "Nella" (the names of his previous wives). With the help of a numerologist, she converted Elda into Hedda and Wolfie never barked up the wrong tree again...