Scenes from the opening night of Eugene Mirman’s Comedy Festival at the Bell House, with Kirsten Schaal, Jon Benjamin, Larry Murphy, Jon Auer, and Daniel Kitson kicking off a week of events.
A young boxing enthusiast, Vladimir Nabokov, writing for a Russian émigré newspaper, called the Frenchman “the wonderful Carpentier,” a “modest, fair-haired young man.”
