Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement
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Dancing Times, December 1936 THE INSTITUTE OF MIME This newspaper article gives a run-down of what had been happening within the Institute of Mime during the preceding year (1935-36). Described as making steady progress, the Institute had some twenty lectures/demonstrations/schools and the Women’s Institute had shown a lot
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Dancing Times London October 1936 MUSIC AND MIME In the Dancing Times of October 1936 there is a single paragraph devoted to promoting a book called Music and Mime, by Dorothy Glover. I would like to find a copy of this book and to hear what some of the tunes
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The Sunderland Echo 24 September 1936 Diploma of Miming Links between the Institute of Mime and the north of England were quite strong in the mid-1930s. This newspaper article (please see attached photo) gives information about activites in Durham. Mrs Margaret Marshall gained her Teachers’ Diploma from the Institute of
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Gloucester Journal 19 September 1936 EXAMINATION SUCCESS Irene Mawer founded the Institute of Mime in 1933, in an attempt to standardise the proficiency of mime teaching and performance. Students of mime could take the Institute’s own examinations which included both performing and teaching qualifications. (I imagine that these would be
Continue readingThe Stage, London 18 June 1936 Ginner-Mawer Production, Vaudeville Theatre June 1936 The Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama performed regularly at theatre’s in London. In 1936, when this newspaper article was printed, the School had a large number of students, and was based in Philbeach Hall, Earls Court,
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