Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement
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This programme puts me in a conundrum. There is no mention of Elsie Fogerty’s Central School, yet I think there is a connection. This performance of Prunella was given at the Swanley Horticultural College in 1916. In Marion Cole’s book about Elsie Fogerty, she states that when Irene Mawer was
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This very pretty document is undated and apart from what I can see in the photo, I know nothing else about its origin. It obviously meant something significant to Irene Mawer, as she kept it safely with the few documents to be found after her death. My extensive notes about
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What a splendid document this is! It seems to be a booklet-type programme – but I can’t see what the performance was, perhaps the title used to be written in by hand, or something? If you know, please do tell me. I can see that there is a list of
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1957 – just five years before Irene Mawer’s death (though of course she could not have known that at the time). Ruby Ginner had retired, and Miss Mawer now held the post of Senior Tutor and Lecturer at the Birmingham School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art, which was founded,
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I am on the scrounge – for a copy of Marion Cole’s book about Elsie Fogerty. I have checked on-line and second-hand copies are quite expensive, so if you have one that you want to sell me very cheaply, please let me know. Elsie Fogerty was a teacher whom Irene
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