Otto Hermann Kahn Otto Hermann Kahn Otto Hermann Kahn (February 21, 1867 – March 29, 1934) was a German-born American investment banker, collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts. Otto was born on February 21, 1867 in Mannheim, Germany, and raised there, by his Jewish parents, Emma (née Eberstadt) and Bernard Kahn. His father had been among the refugees to the United States after the revolution of 1848 and had become an American citizen, but later returned to Germany. Kahn was educated in a gymnasium in Mannheim. Kahn's ambition was to be a musician, and he learned to play several instruments before he
The Country Girl (1766 play) The Country Girl (1766 play) The Country Girl by David Garrick is a derivative play adapted from "The Country Wife" by William Wycherley. By the time David Garrick adapted "The Country Wife" into "The Country Girl", Wycherley's play was considered too raunchy and scandalous to show in theaters. In "The Country Girl" the plot and characters of "The Country Wife" are reformed to exclude elements of the play which, at the time, were considered immoral or in bad taste. In "The Country Girl", the most significant changes to the plot result from the removal of Horner, who in "The Country