Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement
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Venues where Ginner-Mawer Performed In 1937, Irene Mawer gave a speech at the celebration of 21 years of the Ginner-Mawer School (The Link, October 1937, p.22). In the speech she listed some of the theatres where the School had given performances. There are 20 theatres listed and she hasn’t included
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The Two Mollies Mollie Shannon was a Ginner-Mawer and was mentioned in Irene Mawer’s speech made at the 21st birthday celebration party in 1937. Mollie Leuw was also a Ginner-Mawer and her name was mentioned next to that of Mollie Shannon: ‘Among the Ginner Mawers who have gone on to
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By the time the Ginner-Mawer School reached 21 years of existence, Stanley Baldwin had been British Prime Minister three times. Irene Mawer quoted Earl Baldwin, who I presume is the same person. I have tried to find where the quotation was used by Baldwin, but have failed, however, I can
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Mr and Mrs John Laurie. It pains me to refer to a woman only by her husband’s name, as in ‘Mrs John Laurie’. However, this is how women were normally referred to in England in the past, indeed, the not so distant past at that. In this blog post we
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