Word: prajadhipok
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King Prajadhipok of Siam, restored to almost normal eyesight by his U. S. operation (TIME, May 18,. now looks at Bangkok with one eye through clear glass, with the other eye through faintly brown glass, according to passengers on the world-cruiser Empress of Britain which returned to Manhattan last week carrying 95 widows and 336 other passengers. Notables: June, famed London actress, divorced wife of Lord Inverclyde, who boarded ship at San Francisco as did her onetime friend Woolf Barnato (son of the late South African Diamond Tycoon Barney Barnato) with his bride...
...exercises. In Japan he plays golf, provides a pictorial essay on Nipponese methods of hairdress, has his cameraman photograph Fujiyama. Next is a picture of a map, with Fairbanks running across Asia and making a big jump to get to the Philippines. In Siam he has lunch with King Prajadhipok, laughs at the picture of himself perspiring in a stiff collar. In India he examines a snake, shoots a leopard, expresses conventional approbation of the Taj Mahal by moonlight. The commentary is gay, sometimes painfully so. When elephants lollop in a river, Fairbanks says: "They wear nothing but their trunks...
...supplies, a powerful searchlight, equipment for a hazardous search of the island's trackless interior. From Cocos Island the Fleischmann yacht is bound for the Galapagos, Marquezas, Tahiti, Rarotonga, Samoa, Suva, Solomon Islands, New Britain, New Guinea, Timor, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Manila, Bangkok (and a visit to King Prajadhipok), and west via the Arabian Sea and the Suez Canal. In some of the islands Julius Fleischmann will act as a special representative of the U. S. Department of Commerce, drumming up trade and setting an example of usefulness to other yacht-cruisers...
Minuscule King Prajadhipok in a white dress uniform, the sunlight gleaming from his new spectacles, stood on the bridge, beside pretty little Queen Rambai Barni. Glittering with decorations, a delegation of relations and officials were waiting under a red-&-green lacquer pagoda. Not a sound came from the crowds on the shore until family greetings were over...
Early next morning, while the loyal subjects slept off their headaches, King Prajadhipok was up with his eyes open, planning a new law to allow the citizens of Bangkok, capital of his absolute kingdom, to elect their own municipal officers...