The eyes, ears, voice of Australia: Graccio Houlder

              THE EYES, EARS, VOICE OF AUSTRALIA

GRACCIO HOULDER
Adventurer ... Traveler Educator ... Lecturer



Exponent of the Continent

Down-Under



Figure




Magnificent Travelogues



Miss Graccio Houlder, Australian, (whose ancestors were among the '49-ers in California) and who was educated in England, is truly a 
World Traveler.
  She has crossed and recrossed the Australian continent, and seems to know every foot of that most interesting country; has covered 6,000 miles of Australia's coastline.  Travelled extensively throughout England; has visited New Zealand five times.




Miss Houlder has crossed the Pacific four times; three times across the Atlantic Ocean; and on one trip from London to Australia, via South Africa, she was at sea for six weeks.  She has crossed the English Channel twice, crossed the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean, and the 
Seven Seas
, visiting Ceylon, Aden, the Suez, Egypt, Malta, and Gibraltar, besides extensive tours of Canada.  She has lectured in 44 of the 48 states of the United States and has made four lecture tours throughout America.




On account of the growing interest and co-operation of our people with the progressive citizens of the continent 
down-under
 there is universal demand for her gorgeous travelogues—presented (where desired) with both colored motion pictures and stills.  Many of Miss Houlder's moving pictures are government-sponsored, and she comes with credentials signed by the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia.  She strives for the stimulus of co-operative effort in all that is lovely and beautiful.




ELOQUENT — INFORMATIVE — MAGNETIC — DYNAMIC



Subjects:



{
Here Is Australia


Australia, The Beautiful


Democracy In Action
 (The Australian Way of Life)


Australia:  Allied, Unified, and Uniformed


Highlights of Art, Music, Literature, and Education


Aussie Oddities


Mining In Australia


Cavalcade of Sevens






Management:
  WILL J. McEWEN - 
Phone 2859 - 113 West Fourth Street, Marion, Indiana



Loveland, Ohio




AUSTRALIA



REPORT FROM KIWANIS CLUB OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI




Made in Australia,
 presented by Miss Graccio Houlder, received the rapt attention of our members.  Not only were we enlightened by this instructive presentation but we were charmed by the sincere personality of the speaker.




MINNEAPOLIS SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ORATORY




Your lecture here was exceedingly well enjoyed, and the audience appreciated the wealth of information you brought, about the Continent of Australia.  You have the vigor and vitality to carry your message across in fine manner.




Lawrence M. Briggs, Dir.




SCOTTISH RITE CLUB OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI




Miss Houlder addressed the Scottish Rite Club to a packed and enthusiastic house, on the subject:  
The Builders
—which was highly instructive and inspirational.  She 
held the house
.




A. W. Briggs




WOMEN'S CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI




For the Kansas Woman's Exposition I want to tell you how much we enjoyed having you with us as our opening speaker.  The Exposition ended in a blaze of success, and we feel that your impetus at the opening was a very auspicious start.




STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE OF ST. CLOUD, MINNESOTA




Address given to over eleven hundred student teachers.  We have never had anyone who so completely captured us with her charm and magnetism, or who left us so many worth-while thoughts.  You gave us a broader vision.




WICHITA KANSAS GARDEN CLUB




The Club asked me to say, they thought the most delightful meeting of the year was the one you gave them.




Mildred Ross




CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM
 May 6, 1945


UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
 May 12, 1945




BELLEVILLE (Ill.) DAILY ADVOCATE
 January 26, 1943


An amazing first-hand story of Australia was presented yesterday afternoon at the Belleville Woman's Club, with Miss Graccio Houlder of Perth, Australia, as the lecturer.  
The Flora of Australia
 was illustrated with moving pictures of that vast land of the Southern Pacific—colorful, romantic, and fascinating.  In her unique and pleasing travelogue, Miss Houlder took her listeners on a visual journey south of the Equator.  Her dynamic personality held her audience spellbound as she presented in word and picture the beauty of her native Australia.  She expressed a feeling of hope that soon there would be no shadows of war and the time was not far away when that friendship for which we are praying, sacrificing, suffering and fighting would bind Australia and the United States closer together.




THE CONGRESSIONAL CLUB OF WASHINGTON, D. C.




On behalf of the members of the Congressional Club I wish to extend to you our most hearty thanks for the very splendid talk you gave us.  Everybody enjoyed both the talk and the pictures, more than I can say.  Again, 
Thank you so much,
 for coming to the Club and giving us such a treat.




Christine Chindbloom, Corresponding Secretary




BELL 
Y
 CLUB, ATLANTA, GEORGIA




On behalf of the Club I want to thank you for the wonderful program.  It was just 
Tip-Top
.




Lucy Carter




KIWANIS CLUB OF CINCINNATI




I can scarcely find words even to tell you how beautifully pictured and how splendidly portrayed was your fine lecture, given to the members and lady guests at our Kiwanis Luncheon.




Sincerely yours, E. L. Clayton, Sec.




THE PEPPER BOX
, ST. LOUIS ROTARY CLUB




Ball Room, 12:10 Noon, Hotel Statler




Our charming guest speaker, Miss Graccio Houlder, Australian Lecturer and Educator, stirred our souls with the 
Marching Song of the Anzacs.
  She said:  Dominating her home-land was the streamlined sentiment of the great Golden Bridge of the Pacific extending from these United States to Australia, uniting us as one great democratic nation and forming an everlasting 
Bridge of Friendship.




A FEW OF THE CITIES WHERE MISS HOULDER HAS APPEARED:



CALIFORNIA—Bakersfield, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Anna, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica.


ARIZONA—Phoenix, Tucson.


TEXAS—Galveston, Houston.


LOUISIANA—New Orleans, Shreveport.


MISSOURI — Arcadia, Kansas City, Moberly, St. Joseph, St. Louis, Springfield.


IOWA—Des Moines, Waterloo.


KANSAS—Emporia, Lawrence, Leavenworth, Topeka, Wichita.


ILLINOIS — Belleville, Chicago (20), Springfield, Waterloo.


MICHIGAN—Detroit, Kalamazoo.


OHIO—Akron, Ashland, Athens, Barberton, Cincinnati (10), Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Delaware, Elyria, Findlay, Fostoria, Fremont, Hamilton, Lima, Marion, Middletown, Newark, Springfield, Toledo, Warren, Wilmington, Zanesville.


KENTUCKY—Covington, Louisville.


NEBRASKA—Omaha (12).


WISCONSIN—Madison.


WASHINGTON, D. C. (5).


INDIANA—Gary.


MARYLAND—Baltimore.





(In America, when not on the road, Miss Houlder lives in her suburban home—
STRALIA
—near Cincinnati, Ohio.)