Posts Tagged With: USS Leviathan

In 1925, famous ice carver Hans Hansen, was an onboard employee on the USS Leviathan.  He was called upon to create an ice for a famous passenger Rudolph Valentino.  Mr. Valentino insisted on numerous table decorations of ice when he gave shipboard teas for women admirers.  Hansen says he never had just one woman to tea, but always a convey of them and las lax about paying for the dazzling icy décor. “Excuse me”, Hansen said, “ but I hated that guy”.