The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-20
In New York
BY PAUL HARRISON

New York - Roger Wolfe Kahn, whose money, marriages, music, movies, monoplanes and mansion on Fifth Avenue have made him one of the best-known young men of Manhattan, is re-organizing his orchestra and will lead 1t in one of the big gyrate-and-guzzle estab- lishments on Broadway.
 It seems that Papa Otto H. Kahn has lost a good deal of money and even has sold the fam lily house in London and the Maine estate. So Rogers going to earn his own way, or most of 1t He has sold a couple of his planes only has six now in his private hangar at Roosevelt Field-nad with his wife has moved out of the family mansion to an apartment on the East River. He's 25, and in the last seven years, since he started flying, has hung up 3900 hours in the air - more than any other private transport pilot ex- cept Colonel Lindbergh.
 Broadway and the gayer fringes of avenVe society are fond of Kahn because he's a youngster lit- tie spoiled by wealth. Papa Kahn, a musical classicist, was shocked when his son began collecting jazz orchestras, but Roger went right ahead. His friends include me- chanics, brokers, debutantes and chorus girls. He will protest a 5O-cent overcharge in a night club, and on the way home is likelyA to give the taxi driver a $20 tip. He thinks drivers have a pretty tough time of-it.
 Getting Their Number
 By their license plates you may know them = the big shots. Every year the New York motor vehicle bureau gets a flood of spe- cial requests for special lucky combinations of numbers, or low numbers, or plates with the ini- tials of the applicants. And if the plates are in stock, they're issued as requested.
 So it is that this year John F.. Curry, who is still boss of what's left of Tammany Hall, has the plain letter c on the tags of his limousine. Samuel Seabury, who conducted the city government in- yestigations, has been assigned single letter H. Two friends of Postmaster G General Farley. Dan iel McKettrick and Jack McKeon, have been issued DM-1 and JM-1 respectively.
 Dr Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, likes the number 60. His home address is 60 Morningside Heights, and his telephone number Is Uni- versity 4,0O60. And now his au- tomobile license number is NB-60. You'd think Mayor Fiorello
 H. LaGuarlia might have
 MFHLaG if he wanted it. He
 didn't want it; didn't give 2
 whoOp one way or the other. For several weeks he drove around in the limousine used
 by the former Mayor O'Brien.
 The license plates read OB-1. Broadway Brothers
 Every now and then some com parative stranger to Broadway will try to introduce a scenic de- signer named Jo Mielziner to an actor named Kenneth MacKenrla, and one of them will smile and say, "Yes, we know each other. We're brothers"
 Generally the newcomer will laugh at what seems to be some sort of yelled witticism. But the fact is that the two are brothers. Jo Mielziner. under his right name, has become the leading stage designer (of this season at least) and is responsible for much of the studied elegance of gem like sets which start theater au- diences off into spontaneous bursts of applause when curtains go up. |. His father is Leo Mielziner, the artist, and his mother is Irish, one of the MacKennas. 10 studied art in EngAnd and Philadelphia, still draws and paints for his own amusement, and likes to give din- ner parties.
 Leo Mielziner.. Jr.> was working in a bank and acting in amateur plays when he was discovered and hired by William A Brady the producer. Brady ordered him to change his name; said nobody could spell or pronounce Mielziner. So Leo Jr, became Kenneth Mac Kenna, and was successful from the start. About six years ago he went to Hollywood, acted for awhile, became . director and married Kay FranciH. Now he'f back on Broadway, appearing on the scenes that his brother design. ga for the comedy called "By Your Leave"
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