Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement
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In 1954, while Ruby Ginner was heading for retirement and the Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama was being wound up, Irene Mawer continued to teach in Cheltenham for three days a week (Cheltenham Chronicle, 2nd Oct 1954). I don’t know where the classes were held, but throughout her life,
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Irene on BBC TV In 1956, Irene Mawer appeared on BBC television in Great Britain. At this point, Ruby Ginner had retired and the Ginner-Mawer School had closed. Irene had moved from Cheltenham to Birmingham in 1954 – which placed her perfectly for the BBC studios there. Irene’s
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Irene Mawer’s second husband, Mark Edward Perugini, was born in Chiswick, London. Through the kindness of researchers, I have learned that he came from an affluent and creative family. I don’t know if Mawer’s family background was creative, but she was certainly born into wealth in the same way that
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Freedom of Amphissa/Red Cross In October 1948, Irene Mawer and Ruby Ginner were awarded the Freedom of the town of Amphissa, Greece, in grateful thanks for their fund-raising to help Greece after World War 2. Modern spellings are hampering my research into where exactly Amphissa (or Amfissa) is. The Ginner-Mawer
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(Ada) Rosina Bassett/Baroness von Kuhne 1909-2002 During my Irene Mawer research, I came across one of Mawer’s books ‘Twelve Mime Plays’. Inside the flyleaf were written two names: Rosina Bassett 1934, and another name which looks something like Minnie A. S. Satchell, who was possibly Rosina’s “cousin ‘Minnie’ who had
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