HOT WORK
Full Dress in the Tropics A OAT may look at a king in comfort, but if a motion picture, cameraman does so he must wear a full-dress suit even though the temperature be 114 degrees in the shade. This was discovered by Cameraman Hawkins and Sound Technician Jenock, of Paramount Sound News, when they went to Bangkok, Siam, recently, to film the celebration of, the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the present dynasty. Ministers of King Prajadikop informed the newsreel men that since the monarch and his court would wear their finest robes at the festival; all foreigners were expected to dress in their best also. This meant full dress for the Americans. So in-“soup and fish” and tall silk “toppers” they strung theirmicrophones and cranked solemnly away at their cameras through the heat of the tropical day. The King was equally uncomfortable in his heavily-brocaded robes, but the Queen beat the heat in a filmy summer frock which she purchased on Fifth Avenue, some months ago while she and her husband were on a trip,around the world.
The high spot of the celebration occurred when King Prajadikop annointed the new’ statue of the first King of Siam with sacred oil. His Majesty employed a modern mechanical sprayer for the purpose.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 230, 24 June 1932, Page 16
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