New-York tribune., 1909-02-14
n. o. BROWN MARRIED.
Mss Hopper Says we Fooled the
Smart Reporters.
[Rv Telegraph to The Tribune. ]


New Orleans, Feb. 13.-Albert Q. Brown, the
New York broker, on arriving here to-day an
nounced that he and Edna Wallace Hopper, who
is appearing at the Tulane Theatre this week in
Fifty Miles from Boston, were married on
November 25, 1908, at the honie of Justice James
S. White, in Freehold. n. J. The license was
issued on November IS. The witnesses were
Miss Leona Anderson, Louis Ginter Young and
Dennis O'Brien, the latter friend of the justice
and attorney for Miss Hopper.
MI Brown on arriving here at once Joined his
wife at the Grunewald Hotel. He witnessed her
matinee and to-night's performances. Mr. Brown
said:
I'VE are glad to get the secret OF our hands.
We believe we shall be very happy. At least we
have been so up TO date and see no reason why
we should not continue So"
Miss Hopper said:
I'VE did not announce the marriage at the
time IT took place because both Mr.. Brown ana
myself were getting more notoriety than We
wanted out of the unfortunate failure Of August
and the suits which followed. We really made
up our minds that We would keep the marriage a
secret to fool the smart reporters and have a
good Joke on them. And we succeeded too. for
a certainty We consider the joke good enough
now. however, and do not mind the announce
ment taking place. Mr.. Brown will spend some
time with me my present tour. 1t will not be
a honeymoon, though for we have already had
that
Miss Hopper win finish out the season under
her present management, AS to her future plans
she had nothing to say.
The fact that Miss Hopper and a. o. Brown were
engaged brought to light October Is last.
when she called upon TO testify at the bank
ruptcy hearing into the affairs Of A O. Brown &
Co. regarding 5000 automobile and a $4,000 life
frcT,- uha eatS ATr
given her the day they became engaged Dan
el P. Hays. counsel for Receiver Littleheld tried
to make Miss Hopper admit that the gifts were re-
ceived within three months Of the firms failure
thereby constituting preference, but Miss Hop
per stuck 10 her original story that they were
received March p 1903. the day she became en-
gagged to Nir. Brown.
Miss Hopper's testimony, which. according TO the
announcement made yesterday, given about
month before her marriage was given with some
reluctance at times, the actress appearing to re
gard come of the questions as impertnent- She
indignant at the suggestion that counsel for
the receiver might demand .ae return Of her en-
gagement ring, along with the automobile and in
surance policy. and declared. with stamp of her
foot:
You won ( get that ring
The firm Of AsO. Brown & Co. suspended business
on Thursday August s5, on the OF an investga-
ton by a special committee into the transactions
on the Stock Exchange the Saturday preceding.
On october A o. Brown testified that he had
given the automobile and insurance nolicy 10 Miss
Hopper in March, 1908. because he wanted her to
own them" The policy. he. said, had been taken
out twelve years before and made over to Mary G
Brown his wife. who had since dice. Ever since
the suspension the members of the firm Of A. o.
Brown 6. Co have been involved in legal tangie,
figuring in various suits brought by former custom
ers On September 25 five members Of the frn-A.
a Brown. Lewis G. Young, Edward F. Buchanan,
" Fhea whitman and Samuel c. Brown-were ar
rested on warrants charging them with the larceny
of stocks said to be worth 81 500.