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Torchsinger Libby Holman's tonsillectomy had opposite results. Her voice became lower, huskier, made her Broadway's overnight rage. Tampering with singers' throats is always dangerous. If Tito Schipa's voice should drop like Torch-singer Holman's, he might have to renounce his romantic tenor roles, become a villainous baritone...
...Libby Holman Reynolds came to Manhattan in 1924, the talented, pretty and vivacious daughter of an able Cincinnati lawyer whose professional abilities she was presently both to tax and to advertise. She rapidly acquired fame and a fortune estimated at $150,000 by singing "torch songs." After the death of Smith Reynolds, Libby Holman Reynolds and Albert ("Ab") Walker, Reynolds' friend and secretary, were indicted for murder; it was established that Libby Holman Reynolds was pregnant. Last November the State of North Carolina lacked evidence to prosecute its case against Mrs. Reynolds and Ab Walker. Libby Holman Reynolds went...
...there arose immediately the question of who was to inherit the estate-now grown to $20,000,000-of Zachary Smith Reynolds. Before his second marriage he had made a will in New York bequeathing it to his brother and two sisters. The will omitted mention of Libby Holman and her son. It provided $50,000 each for Anne Cannon Reynolds and Anne Cannon Reynolds...
...Wilmington last week, Lawyer Alfred Holman, father of Libby Holman Reynolds, issued a statement which said: '"Mrs. Reynolds has offered to relinquish her child's right to the inheritance as far as she is legally able and her own share as a widow save a comparatively modest sum in each case . . . hoping the remainder may be devoted to public uses through an endowment established in her late husband's and his father's memory...
...will be no easy matter for Mrs. Libby Holman Reynolds to relinquish any part of her child's right to the inheritance. Before she can relinquish her own rights, it might well be necessary to determine what her rights are. The statement of Lawyer Holman therefore left the question almost exactly where it had been when Zachary Smith Reynolds Jr. propounded it with his first squawk. A few of the other questions which remained for the courts to settle...