A Tribute to Irene Mawer by Eileen Stuart (nee Varley) This week’s blog post is of tremendous importance as it has been written a woman who knew Irene Mawer in person. The author of this piece was a full-time pupil at the Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama in the
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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
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The Scotsman Edinburgh 4 March 1935 Title of Newspaper Article: Performance of Mimes In this review of it’s London performance, this show organised by Irene Mawer’s Institute of Mime received excellent coverage with the standard of the work being described as ‘high’. In this review, we learn more about the
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Morning Post, London 4 March 1935 Title of Newspaper Article: ‘Wordless Drama of Conviction: two and a half hours of silent charm.’ My comments: Two and a half hours of silent charm! Two and a half hours without any words? That is a l-o-n-g time. That show must have been
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Edinburgh Evening Dispatch 4 March 1935 Even the tiniest newspaper article was of interest to Irene Mawer. This one, is another which relates to the performance or performances given in Scotland during March 1935. We learned from previous accounts that students from Edinburgh took part in the performance given in
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Mimes of Many Periods Part of the role of the Institute of Mime (which was founded by Irene Mawer) was to enable mime performances to take place around Britain, with all participants working to the same high technical and expressive standards. In this newspaper clipping (see attached photo), we read
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Birmingham Mail 21 Feb 1935 Title of Newspaper Article: Mime We have seen from my recent blog posts that Irene Mawer, through her Institute of Mime in association with the Women’s Institute (WI) gave lecture-demonstrations in Scotland and in York. Today’s newspaper clipping gives us advance notice that the
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Sussex Daily News 13 November 1933 The Oldest Art: mime demonstrated at Brighton Roedean is a private, fee-paying school in the south of England. This newspaper clipping describes a mime demonstration there, given by Irene Mawer. Reading this newspaper article in conjunction with the newspaper article described in my previous
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This is another in a series of blog posts which are based on newspaper articles. Among Irene Mawer’s papers left at the time of her death, was an A4-sized hardback book, full of these cuttings which give us a good overview of much of Irene’s career. This newspaper cutting is
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At the time of her death, Irene Mawer left among her personal belongings a hard-backed book with a greeny-black cover, the front of which is embossed with gold lettering spelling out the words Newspaper Cuttings. Roughly A4 in size, the book contains a large collection of newspaper clippings, covering the
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