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Blues, Ballads and Sin-Songs brought Libby Holman back to Broadway in a one-woman show. A quarter of a century after Body and Soul and Moanin' Low, Libby still looks youthful, her voice is still throaty and smoldering. Last week's music noticeably differed, however, from the songs the siren sang in The Little Show and Three's a Crowd; her present program-some of it suggesting what might be termed musical American primitives-sets her where the nightclub singer merges (or clashes) with the recitalist...
...Libby Holman's private life has given her a right to sing the blues. In 1931 she married 20-year-old Z. (for Zachary) Smith Reynolds, heir to a $28 million cigarette (Camels) fortune. Eight months later, he was shot through the head at a drunken party. With a splash of tabloid headlines, Libby and Reynolds' male secretary were indicted for murder, then freed for lack of evidence. Six months after his father died, Christopher Smith ("Topper") Reynolds was born. He inherited $7,000,000 (Libby...
Last week, in her East Side apartment, 50-year-old Libby Holman, no tragic figure, was happily immersed in her "theater piece." Why did she change to ballads? "The songs are much richer and deeper than smarty-pants Tin Pan Alley." The mixed critical opinion? "I never read the hatchetmen. You can't change what you're doing just because some people don't like it." From Broadway Libby will take Blues on a brief East Coast tour, then perhaps to India and Japan. "No retiring to a chicken farm for me," she says...
Died. Albert Bailey ("Ab") Walker, 44, indicted in 1932 with Singer Libby Holman (Moanin' Low) Reynolds as the hypotenuse in the alleged triangle killing of Tobacco Heir Zachary Smith (Camels) Reynolds, later released (with Libby) because of insufficient evidence; of cancer; in Winston-Salem...
That night, at the annual banquet, the A.B.A. presented its gold medal for jurisprudence to ex-President Holman-for his Bricker Amendment leadership. Then outgoing President Robert G. Storey, 59, of Dallas handed over his gavel to incoming President William J. Jameson, 55, a Billings, Mont, lawyer, and the diamond jubilee of the A.B.A. was over...