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Wishing to hear native music and reports while dark closeted after his eye operation, King Prajadhipok conferred with Philadelphia's Norden Hauck Radio Co. about a receiving set (similar to his Bangkok receiver) capable of picking up Siam from New York. He was told only one man, radio enthusiastic Roy C. Cool of Morristown, N. J. had invested in such a set and had it in working order. The company forthwith negotiated; Mr. Cool gladly loaned. After much painstaking dial twiddling by a Norden Hauck expert, a Bangkok orchestra blared forth...
...carried over regular telephone wires) but the image on the little screen is uncertain, like a snapshot taken out of focus. Weirdly this snapshot rolls its unfocused eyes and moves its puffy lips. Celebrities who have telephoned their pictures and voices include King Prajadhipok and Queen Rambai Barni of Siam, who chattered in their own language, and Banker Charles Edwin Mitchell, who said: "Why, if you linked up the important U. S. cities with this thing you would get enough business from the banks alone to make money...
...three principal visitors at the White House last week were King Prajadhipok and Queen Rambai Barni of Siam and Bryan Untiedt, 13-year-old hero of last month's Colorado blizzard (TIME, April 6, 13). The ailing little King, first absolute monarch ever to cross the Executive Mansion's threshold, called on President Hoover at 10:15 one morning, hurried back to his quarters to receive the President at n, then spent the afternoon in a dentist's office. After a state dinner at the White House that evening, during which Master Untiedt was permitted to peep...
...Republican, she was glad to cast her honorary vote for Calvin Coolidge. Last year she was appointed to the Port of New York's survey to devise improvements in customs inspection. To her the State Department turned, last month, in search of shelter for its royal guests from Siam...
Program for The Visit to Washington of His Majesty the King of Siam and Her Majesty the Queen April...