Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement
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Dancing Times, London, April 1935 The performance described in this review was given by the Institute of Mime, with the theme of mime in different times and different countries Cast members seem to have been mainly connected to Ginner-Mawer, but also included students of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
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Yorkshire Weekly Herald, 8 March 1935 The National Federation of Women’s Institutes (more regularly known as the WI) organised a one-day School of Mime in York. The reviewer held that the day was a success and that the WI were justified to have gone ahead with the event. “The Yorkshire
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Morning Post, 1934 Miss Mawer must have been hugely gratified with this review from the Morning Post – it is glowing. Interestingly, it tells us that the audience was made up mostly of young people, who were very happy to see an old play and were vocally quite loud. The review reads: “It
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The Times, 1934 This performance of L’Enfant Prodigue at the Westminster Theatre, London was a fund-raiser for the Institute of Mime. The reviewer opens the article with the following comment “One of the more obvious duties of the Institute of Mime is at frequent intervals to refresh our memories of
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Morning Post, 7 June 1934 Unusually, I have included an article which does not mention Miss Mawer. However, the newspaper clipping is in Miss Mawer’s private collection – so it must have been important to her. Further down the clipping, she has underlined a paragraph, which gives us the clue
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