{"value"=>"<p>Consists of correspondence from each of the Mielziners' two sons, covering everything from childhood descriptions of summer camp to their respective professional activties in adulthood. Correspondence from son Kenneth MacKenna encompasses his Hollywood period as a film actor and director, his marriage to movie star Kay Francis, the end of the marriage and his return to a stage acting career in New York. Kenneth's letters to his parents during this period provide a behind-the-scenes glimpse of movie-making during the early talkie days, while his status as Kay Francis' husband helped Kenneth meet a number of prominent figures. Much of Kenneth's correspondence during 1934 concerns a stage production of <span class=\"title\">Othello</span> in which he played Iago to Walter Huston's Moor. Material pertaining to son Jo includes Juvenilia of various kinds dated between 1910 and 1921, including several examples of childhood art, and a poem about King Arthur which Jo's parents arranged to have published in Franklin Pierce Adams' newspaper humor column. The mature Jo's letters to his parents describe social events, travels (a number of them were written from a Wyoming \"dude ranch\") and his professional activities. He often writes about his current projects and his collaborators, and also about future plans. After unsuccessful productions, he sometimes writes a 'post mortem,' speculating about the reasons for the failure. He also speaks in more general terms: in one letter dated June 1935, Jo predicts that the next ten years in the theater may bring great change, and remarks that he must learn to be more adventurous in his work.</p>"}