There were also comedians, singers and other entertainers that put on two shows a night - one for the early diners and one at 10.45 for late diners.
(Click on the picture for more information on Florenz Ziegfeld and his Ziegfeld Follies)
(The Palladium Theatre is one of the larger theatres on the high seas. It is an impressive state-of-the-art three-tier theatre, the largest and most sophisticated of its kind.)
Waiters would bring drinks to your seat if you
wanted them,
but having just eaten a huge gourmet dinner,
we had no room left for even the tiniest of drinks.
After the show finished at midnight, we could go on to any one of nine other lounges where there was some form of entertainment and, of course, the casino.
My money has to do a lot more for me than allow me to watch a wheel spin round before it disappears, so it was one of the few places we never visited.
Every time we returned to our room, the cabin boy had been in and tidied and wiped round the basin; at night the beds were prepared and more chocolates left.