Unique in the History of the English Stage. 1935
Dancing Times
London
March 1935
The attached photograph shows one of Irene Mawer’s newspaper cuttings, which she kept in a scrapbook specially purchased for that purpose. The news clippings range from 1933 – 1940 and show the process of evolution of the Institute of Mime, which Miss Mawer founded in 1933.
Today’s newspaper extract is a short and succinct paragraph explaining that the Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama would be taking part in a performance organised by the Institute of Mime.
Due to be held at the Rudolf Steiner Hall, on 2 march 1935 the event was heralded as probably unique in the history of the English stage. Indeed, it would have been a fine show, with over one hundred performers, including students from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA); Elsie Fogerty’s Central School of Speech and Drama; as well as the Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama. In addition, a band of actors were due to travel from Scotland to London to take part and demonstrate the possibility of Scottish Ballads being used as themes for pictorial representation. I covered this theme in my previous blog post, with the inclusion of the ballad of Tam Lin.
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