Marie Osmond takes us into the Roaring Twenties.

Re: yesterday's post...

 She's not wrong! Personally I'd no idea any of the Osmonds had had a brush with the author of the Dada Manifesto, but here it is and it's wonderful. Thanks for the heads up, Mary!

 According to the youtube comments, Osmond hadn't entirely got her facts straight though regarding Ball's outfit: "The '13' costume discussed in the video was worn by Theo Van Doesburg, not Hugo Ball, in 1922 when he performed 'Does At Mid-Lent' at the Bauhaus." When Ball performed "Karawane" at the Cabaret Voltaire in 1916, what he was actually wearing was this:

 Image courtesy of whatever this is.

 I wonder if the people at Ripley's suggested Marie try it on. The clip is from 1985 by the way, two years after the release of "Stop Making Sense", although Ball's "I Zimbra" never made it into the theatrical cut of that so it's probably not relevant. Shame. David Byrne's little salt-shaker moves are one of the defining memories of that film for me. Like David says, "If you dance you might understand the words better." Hell of a lyricist, that Hugo Ball.