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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(Isabel) Sheila Evans This is another in the occasional series of blog posts which focuses on the women who were trained at the Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama. Today’s post highlights Isabel Sheila Evans, who was always known as Sheila. While at school in Broadstairs (Kent), which would have been
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Miss Melusine Wood In 1933 and 1934 we hear about a woman called Miss Melusine Wood. Melusine is not a name I have come across before and according to Wikipedia it is a French word from European folklore, meaning ‘a female spirit of fresh water in a holy well or
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From an article in The Link, July 1934, p.6, we learn that there was to be a Summer School of the Central School of Speech Training at the Royal Albert Hall. It was to be attended by delegates of the Drama League. The inaugral lecture-demonstration in Mime was to be
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Italian Marionettes The Link, July 1934, p.247 From time to time, Irene Mawer’s husband, Mark Edward Perugini, was editor of The Link, which was ‘The Journal of the Association of Teachers of the Revived Greek Dance; the Z Club; the Ginner-Mawer School; and of all who are interested
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From The Link, July 1934, p.6 The Link was the newsletter associated with the Association of the Teachers of the Revived Greek Dance, and the Ginner-Mawer School of Speech and Dramatic Art. Although the Institute of Mime was not mentioned on the front cover in the same way that the
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Felicia Mallet (1863-1928) was a French woman who taught mime to Elsie Fogerty (1865-1945), who in turn ‘let fall’ nuggets of knowledge to Irene Mawer (1893-1962) when she was a pupil at Fogerty’s Central School in England during World War One. According to Wikipedia, Mallet was a comedian, singer and
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