Let’s kick off the year with a brief visit to one gone by. Famed Surrealism artist, Salvador Dalí and his wife, Gala hosted a charity dinner party in 1941; the hostess herself dressed as a unicorn, entertaining guests from a bed.

Guests were treated to such delicacies as fish served from women’s satin slippers and platters of live frogs. Apparently there were some really good hallucinogens around in 1941.

Watch the mayhem below, including awful puns and an incredibly camp appearance by the late Bob Hope, entertainer and supposed ladies’ man:

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