MR. L. E. GIELGUD TO VISIT NEW ZEALAND

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 197, 6 September 1937, Page 5

MR. L. E. GIELGUD TO VISIT NEW ZEALAND

Ifembers of the Rcd Cross Society in New Zealand are looking forward to the visit of the under-secretary general of the League of Red Cross Societies, Mr L. E. Gielgud, and Mrs Gielgud, who have arrived in Australia and who will leave for New Zealand on September 17. They will arrive al Auckland ou September 20 and at Wellington on September 23. Just bcxore his departure for Australia Mr Gielgud was married to Miss Zita Gordon, brilliant Hungarian stage and screen actrcss, and this provided hira with yet another link witl) the theatrical world. He is a brother of John Gielgud, well-known English actor, and Val Gielgud; director of draniatie productions in the B.B.C., is another brother. His grandmother was a sister of Elleii Terry. Mrs Gielgud will come to Australia with her husband and sharos with liim a taste for writing. He described liis tirsh tour of the world from the unusual angle of a •Lled Cross man visiting Red Cross institutions in "About It and About," a book of travel. He is novv on his fourth world tour for the society. Born in Londn in 1894, Mr Gielgud i vvas educated at Eton and Magdalen Col- ■ lcge, Oxford. He served throughout the ' war, and was seriously wounded in 1915 in France. He was decorated for war service by the British, French, Rumanian, and Yugoslav Governments, and. liolds the Japanese orrlor of the Rising Sun, in acldition to Red Cross decorations. While thcv aro in Canberra, Mr and Mrs Gielgud will be the guests of the Govcrnor-General of Australia, Lord Gowrif, suid Lady Gonns.