Announcement

Kuno Kohn will read from his own works at the
Clou Club. Young girls and lawyers kindly requested
not to attend.


As the evening approached, Kuno Kohn became increasingly agitated.
Two hours before he had himself shaved. When the man asked whether
the gentleman wanted powder, Kohn shook his head no, but said: "yes."
An hour before Kohn went into a police station and asked for ten
five-pfennig stamps and a ten pfennig postal card. (tr.--thinking
that he is in the post-office).

When Kohn stepped on the podium, he became calmer than he had
expected to be. First he made a slip of the tongue, but then his
voice gradually became firm and clear. Very few people were in the
little hall, but some critics from the large, influential newspapers
were in attendance. The next day one of them declared, in the widely
circulated Alten Buergerzeitung, that the poems the poet Kohn, who
enlists our sympathy because of his physical handicap, brought to the
attention of a sparsely attended hall were not yet ready for
publication; however, one might expect something from his muse when
Kohn has matured. Another declared, in the Journal for Enlightened
Citizens: the overall impression is pleasing, but the poems are not
all of the same quality. In addition, the poet had not read well.
But the first line of the first verse of the poem "The Comedian" was
movingly pithy in expression and feeling.

After the reading, the president of the club, the gifted Dr. Bryller,