The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-06-04
DEWOLF HOPPER TO WE'D
NELLA BERGEN GETS DIVORCE AND
MARRIAGE WILL FOLLOW.
Edra Wallace Hopper Now in Europe
Backing Tod sIoan's Mounts
Johann strauss Dead-stase News.

FARGO. y. D., June 3-NeIla Bergen, the
opera singer, who secured a divorce here.
is TO marry De Wolf Hopper, the operate
comedian. at once.
oh. the wedding bells are ringing
And muffied is their tone.
And the chorus girls are singing
A romance Of their own
Divorce courts have decided
That each Of them is free,
And so De Wolf will marry
The winSome Nela Il.
With regards 10 Harry B. Smith. Connubial
Laureate.
sips have been saying the same thing for
three days on the authority of the bride
elect. who has returned to New York. from
Dakota. with her divorce papers in her
hand. The New York Telegraph. which.
with cigarette, was styled the soubrette
breakfast by Clarisse Agnew. has the fol-
lowing: De Wolf Hopper, the altitudinous
comedian with the sepulcher-sounding lower
register, will, this week or next week, in
gen Mrs. Hopper No. 3 This important pre-
I1minary accomplished, the two favorite IN
straightway for Europe, with the joys OF
restful honeymoon as their private and per-
sonal objective.
The forthcoming nuptials have not been
announced officially. Nobody Will acknowl-
edge to having either received cards or or
dered the conventional silverware, but Miss
Bergen Is daily TO be seen ostentattouSly
devastating the lingerie departments of the
Twenty thrid-street shops and the sample
counters OF the Fifth-avenue modistes. The
tall unctuouS and twice-tried reported
bridegroom isn't much in evidence, but that
doesn't matter.
Miss Bergen told Miss Carlston also of
the De Wolf Hopper Opera Company, the
portentious secret Thursday. Miss Carlston
didn't mean TO tell, and she didn't tell any
body but very few very particular friends
So il wasn't really her fault that the story
leaked out
The wedding. according to Miss Bergen's
condolences, viii take place this week or
next week. The tour abroad will follow on
the heels of the celebrant's blessing. Mrs.
Hopper-as she will be then-may spend a
year or two in voice culture in Europe, It's
said, while Mr.. Hopper returns to America
TO tickle the Temunerative risibilities of the
great American public.
People who keep scrapbooks and indexes
and things know that De Wolf Hopper has
been married twice already. His second
Hopper, is now in England. (She went to
Paris, last week, after losing plenty of mon
ey, it is said, backing the mour.s OF Tod
Sloan, whom she was at one time reported
TO be about to marry) She secured a di-
vorce from the tall comedian some months
ago by friendly suit. Mr.. Hopper's profess
sional career is too well known to necessi-
tate present reorganization.
Nella Bergen. of the concert platform
and later of the operate stage, was born.
as has been previously said. Nellie Rior-
dan daughter Of Brooklyn police cap
tain She married, while still a young
Silver-plate Company of Meriden, Conn.
Miss Riordan had received a good must
servatory shortly before her marriage. She
had a splendid natural soprano voice of
unusual range. quality and power, and she
was finished vocalist when she married
Mr.. Bergen.
From Meriden where she spent her
bridal year, Mrs. Bergen went 10 Hart
ford as soprano soloist in the choir of
the venerable Center Congregational
Church. The Rev. DR.. George Leon Walker
had discovered her and found her this
opportunity OF musical usefulness.
While still a member OF the Center
Church choir Mrs. Bergen sang in ANA
teur opera She played the leading So
prano roles Of Patience, ,"PiLafore" and
other innocuouS productions.
Mrs. Bergen did not return TO Meriden
from Hartford but came back TO her people
IN Brooklyn. She spent two or three years
IN study, completing her artistic equipment,
and finally, about four years ago, made her
debut as a grand concert singer with John
Philip Sousa's band From concert she went
into comic opera, essaying with great sue
cess the prina donna roles In the operas
produced by the De Wolf Hopper Opera
Company.
Though some time separated from Mr.
Bergen, the fair singer only very recently
secured a Dakota divorce. Gossips who tell
of the marriage impending say also that
Mrs Bergen went straight TO Dakota when
she closed with the opera company a. few
weeks ago, and that she has just returned
with the court decree, which enables her to
adequately reward the tender devotion of
the star comedian with whom she had been
playing during the earlier weeks Of the sea-
son.