While idly browsing through Facebook, I came upon a video which made my heart sing. So I send out a big thank you to an Italian community organisation called Balancing Act for making this video, and for including Irene Mawer. I began watching the video, totally unknowing what would be
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Pittville Gardens, Cheltenham
This flyer, and the newspaper clipping attached to it are causing me some confusion! There is no date. Written in fountain pen are the words “This may be the future G-M School”. Yet, in the newspaper clipping, there is a reference to the Civic Theatre fire – but this happened
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“Prunella”
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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Apex Theatre, Birmingham
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 Birmingham Lecture
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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