Music: Young Kahn

If it is strange that Otto Hermann Kahn, sensitive patron of high art in Manhattan, should have a saxaphone-tooting, banjo-plunking, clarinet-wailing, violin-jazzing son, it is stranger still that that son, Roger Wolfe Kahn, has become a truly outstanding jazzer at the perilous age of 18.

Last week, Roger announced his purchase of Giro's (night club), Manhattan; his partner, Rene Racover of the Perroquet in Paris; his resort's new name, Perroquet de Paris; his opening, early autumn.

Roger's ten orchestras, one of which he leads, have netted him some $30,000. In off moments he...

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