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Hi Everyone. Apologies for missing the blog post last week – I am concentrating so hard on getting my Irene Mawer book out, that I don’t even know what day it is. This is a short update to let you all know that my book is coming along extremely well –
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11 December 1959 Aberdeen Evening Express, Scotland The woman in this newspaper article is described as a member of the educational speech training staff – does this perhaps refer to speech therapy? She is Miss Joy Scaling and she lived in Scotland, where several of the newly trained speech therapists
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18 August 1955 The Stage In 1955 a letter was printed in The Stage, Britain’s leading theatre publication at that time, one year after the closure of the Ginner-Mawer School. The writer of the letter, Eileen Varley, had been a student at Ginner-Mawer and was obviously in favour of the
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Hello to everyone who is checking in from the CGD link. Thank you for coming to see the Irene Mawer page. I had a fabulous time at the Festival Finals and it was wonderful to finally see live Classical Greek Dancing. I was entranced for the whole day. The only other time
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When the Birmingham School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art, (now known as the Birmingham School of Acting) first opened in 1937, Irene Mawer was the first of the guest lecturers. Miss Mawer lectured on mime, and brought some of the Ginner-Mawer girls with her to demonstrate her theories. This
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