Word: elsbeth
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...timeless absurdities of youth. But it isn't buoyant or spontaneous enough; all its breeze seems to come from an electric fan. It has that terrible noisiness which is the bane of too-innocent merriment. Refreshing is the still, small voice of Janie's baby sister Elsbeth (Clare Foley), who at seven is a past mistress of espionage and blackmail. Elsbeth is funny. The rest is formula...
...Neither Tenor George Metaxa, whose wife was killed in an automobile accident last March, nor Elsbeth ("Libby") Hoiman Reynolds, whose husband was mysteriously shot two years before, add much to the color or amusement of the proceedings. Fluffy-haired old Charles Winninger gets his biggest laugh when, as the rutty governor, he falls into a mill race filled with real water...
Divorced. Anne Ludlow Cannon Reynolds Smith, 23; from Frank Brandon Smith Jr., real estate man, her second husband; in Hot Springs, Ark. Charges: general indignities. Mrs. Smith's first husband was the late tobacco heir Zachary Smith Reynolds, whose second wife was Singer Elsbeth ("Libby") Holman...
...unsolved death of Zachary Smith Reynolds, Camel cigaret scion (TIME, July 18): agreement between the Reynolds family, his second wife Elsbeth ("Libby") Holman Reynolds and his first wife Anne Cannon Reynolds, towel heiress, awarding $2,000,000 each to his two children, Libby Reynolds' son Zachary Smith Jr. and Anne Cannon Reynolds...
Anne got a settlement from Smith Reynolds of $500,000 for herself and the same amount for little Anne. On the same day, Smith Reynolds took out a license for his second marriage-to Elsbeth ("Libby") Holman. A week later they were secretly married in Monroe, Mich. Immediately afterward, Smith Reynolds set off to fly around the world in his own plane. When he got back, in May 1932, he and Libby Holman Reynolds announced their marriage in Manhattan. On July 6, at "Reynolda," Smith Reynolds and his wife gave a party, during which Smith Reynolds was found...