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 composes tunes: Why?, Nobody Loves Me, I Love You Sincerely, etc.

"The family," he confided to the press last week, "doesn't mind any more. Mother was the one. . . ."