RED CROSS OFFICIAL TO VISIT HASTINGS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 212, 23 September 1937, Page 11

RED CROSS OFFICIAL TO VISIT HASTINGS

Members of tbe Red Cross Society in New Zeaiand are looking forward to tbe visit of the Under-Secretary-Gener-al of the Leacjue of Red Cross Societies, Mrs L. E. Gielgud, and Mrs Gielgud, who arrived in Auckland on September 20 and will reacb Wellington on September 23. These visitors will deliver broadcast talks to-day at 4 p.m. from Auckland (1YA) ; at 8.40 p.m. on Friday next at Wellington (2YA), and again at 7.25 p.m. on Wednesday, September 29, at Dunedin (4YA). Just before his departure for Australia, Mr Gielgud was. married to Miss Zita Gordon, briiliant Hungarian stagje and screen actress, and this proviaed him with yet another link with th© theatrical world. He is a brother of John Gielgud, well-known English actor, and Val Gielgud, director of the dramatic productions in the B.B.C.. is another brother. His grandmother was a sister of Ellen Terry. Mrs Gielgud will come to Australia with her husband and shares with him a taste for writing. He described his first tour of the world from the unusual augle of a Red Cross man visiting Red Cross institutions in "About lt and About", a book of travel. He is now on his fourtb world tour for the society. Born in London in 1894, Mr Gielgud was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. He served throughout the war, and W'as seriously wounded in 1915 iu France. He was decorated for war service by the British, French, Rumauian, and Yugoslav Governments, and holds the JaJ/anese order of the llising Sun, in addition to Red Cross decorations. While they were at Canberraj* Mr and Mrs de Gielgud were the giuests of the Governor-General of Australia, Lord Gowrie, and Lady Gowrie. During their New Zeaiand tour they will be accompanied by Mrs T.. H. Lowry, O.B.E., Dominion President of the New Zeaiand Red Cross Society and will reach Hastings on Wednesday, October