Category: Biography

Yorkshire Evening Press, 2 February 1939 The British Drama League organised a preliminary round of the North Riding Drama Festival, in Yorkshire. There were many entries, including from the local Women’s Institutes. East and West Ayton chose to perform The Flood. I wonder if this was Irene Mawer’s version, after

Dancing Times, London, November 1938 This mention of a mime play competition is different to the Memorial Mime Competition which was held after Miss Mawer’s death. This is the only time I have come across information on this endeavour. The competition was organised through the Institute of Mime, which by

Bradford Daily Telegraph, 4 November 1938 In this newspaper article, from Bradford in West Yorkshire, we learn that Miss Mawer was due to give her lecture-demonstration again. She must have been pleased to be called ‘one of the greatest living experts of mime’ and I would have been interested to

The Times, 25 August 1938 This newspaper clipping is quite long, and gives detailed information about the work of the British Drama League School and the previous year’s Theatre Festival in Buxton. This year they intended to hold a school on similar lines in the Playhouse. It is clear that

High Peak News, 27 August 1938 A long newspaper article detailing the forthcoming events at this festival in Derbyshire, tells us that one of Miss Mawer’s students would be presenting classes there. Irene Mawer got on well with Jane Ruscoe and they became close friends and co-workers. In 1938 Jane,