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...First a cataract must be skillfully extracted from one of His Majesty's eyeballs...
Royalty en Route. Slim little King Prajadhipok and ample, moon-faced Queen Rambai of Siam were streaking across the Pacific ocean last week, bound for Mrs. Whitelaw Reid's estate on Long Island Sound. There His Majesty will recuperate after deft U. S. surgeons have removed a cataract from...
...Department despatched to Bangkok a cablegram, signed Herbert Hoover, in which "sincere felicitations on behalf of the American people" were extended. Next April President Hoover will receive King Prajadhipok, traveling incognito to save money and needless ceremony, when he comes to the U. S. for the removal of a cataract in Manhattan...
Siam's King Prajadhipok announced that he and curvesome Queen Rambai will sail incognito to the U. S. next spring for removal of a four-year-old cataract from one of His Majesty's eyes. Dr. E. H. van Hasselt, noted Dutch oculist now in Java, was rushed recently from there by airplane to Bangkok, recommended that the Royal eye be knifed at "a famous American clinic" not named last week in despatches (probably Johns Hopkins...
...other members of the Royal Family, including the 25-yr.-old Crown Prince and three nephews of His Majesty who were treated for trachoma, last week kept Dr. Fahmy busy. He also removed a cataract from the eye of 70-yr.-old Emir Abdel Ibn Selim, Governor of Oniva...