Christchurch Press, 1 September 1922 Irene Mawer’s influence reached right over to the other side of the world. In New Zealand, Mildred Peters (later, Mildred Robley-Browne) opened her own school of dancing, dramatic art, and mime. Having trained at Ginner-Mawer, Mildred knew the importance of mime as the underpinning of
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The Stage and Television Today, 20 December 1962 Shortly before Christmas 1962, Irene Mawer died of a stroke. The obituary describes Irene as having been one of the most remarkable English mimes of her day. It also points out her other great passion in life – teaching, and acknowledges that
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Milton Keynes, 3 November 2024 I was extremely pleased and honoured to be invited to the Ruby Ginner Awards. I had never been before and it was an extremely interesting day. The event is held by the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD) Classical Greek Faculty. The ISTD is
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Hi Everyone Sorry for the scary photo, but some of my supporters have been wondering what I look like! Well, here you go. People have also been saying they would like to know a little bit more about me and I thought I could explain about this selfie. The pic
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It would have been a huge event for anyone to appear on the television in 1936. The Ginner-Mawer School would have, without a doubt, been thrilled to have appaeared on the BBC. You may wonder why I have included a performance of Classical Greek Dance in an article about Irene
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Daily Telegraph, 14 November 1964 After Miss Mawer’s death, a memorial Mime Competition was held in her memory. Miss Mawer died in 1962 and this clipping from 1964 points to the esteem in which she was held. Distinguished patrons who were invited to see the competition included Sybil Thorndike, Peggy
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unattributed newspaper, 1951 This has to be my favourite news cutting of all of them. Favourite because it comes attached to a hand written note by Irene Mawer, expressing how she feels about the performance. The review is of a play called Everyman, which was held inside St Stephen’s Church,
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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
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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
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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
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