The Era, Wednesday 18 June 1924
This afternoon performance was given in London at the King’s Theatre in Hammersmith. The article doesn’t say why the show was being put on – I thought at first that it might have been the exam performances, but I don’t think it was that.
I also don’t see the connection between the content of the programme and Shakespeare ( the show is by arrangement with Mr J B Mulholland and the New Shakespeare Company).
The programme comprised of A Festival of Hera, which included Greek ritual and mimetic dances; scenes from Prunella by Laurence Houseman and Granville Barker; The Ladye of Armour which is a mediaeval mime by Mawer, and “by special request”, The Call of the Sea (a Ginner piece, so presumably a dance) plus scenes from L’Enfant Prodigue (whereby Mawer would play the role of Pierrot).
The company included Effie Williams, Doris McBride (who I met in the early 1980’s – she was a friend of my own teacher), Renee Gadd, Kathleen Simpson (LRAM), and Amy Rushworth (LRAM). So an impressive company.
