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21 February 1935, Birmingham Mail

Birmingham Mail 21 Feb 1935 Title of Newspaper Article: Mime We have seen from my recent blog posts that Irene Mawer, through her Institute of Mime in association with the Women’s Institute (WI) gave lecture-demonstrations in Scotland and in York.  Today’s newspaper clipping gives us advance notice that the

June 1, 2021 Biography / Blog / Mime

13 November 1933

Sussex Daily News 13 November 1933 The Oldest Art: mime demonstrated at Brighton Roedean is a private, fee-paying school in the south of England. This newspaper clipping describes a mime demonstration there, given by Irene Mawer. Reading this newspaper article in conjunction with the newspaper article described in my previous

May 25, 2021 Biography / Blog / Mime

Dancing Times 1933

This is another in a series of blog posts which are based on newspaper articles. Among Irene Mawer’s papers left at the time of her death, was an A4-sized hardback book, full of these cuttings which give us a good overview of much of Irene’s career. This newspaper cutting is

May 19, 2021 Biography / Blog / Mime

JUNE 1940

At the time of her death, Irene Mawer left among her personal belongings a hard-backed book with a greeny-black cover, the front of which is embossed with gold lettering spelling out the words Newspaper Cuttings. Roughly A4 in size, the book contains a large collection of newspaper clippings, covering the

May 11, 2021 Biography / Blog / Mime

“A DEDICATION”

From the British Newspaper Archives (britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) Name of Newspaper ‘Graphic’ Date of publication of newspaper 13 February 1926 Miss Mawer would have been approximately 32 years old at this time. The newspaper article, I think, is not talking about a book called ‘Word-Rhythms,’ rather it is talking about Miss Mawer’s