Worthing Herald, 6th November 1937 This newspaper clipping is very unusual in that it is a photograph, and it shows a scene from one of Irene Mawer’s mime plays – but she is not in it. The play was put on by the Worthing School of Dramatic Art, who presumably
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Birmingham Daily Gazette, 27 April 1937 When Pamela Chapman opened her school in September 1936 in Birmingham, one of the first guest lecturers was Irene Mawer. Miss Chapman was excited to announce at the Three Counties Club, that Miss Mawer would be giving a lecture which promised to attract a
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Unknown newspaper, 10 February 1937 For a while, mime was quite popular in Worthing – a seaside town on the south coast of England. The person promoting it was Peggy Evans – a graduate of the Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama. This newspaper article is based on Miss Mawer’s
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Drama, London, April 1935 This tiny article was very important to me as it finally explained why students from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) were performing at the show given by the Institute of Mime. It also explains why the Central School were there, as well as Ginner-Mawer.
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Dancing Times, London, April 1935 The performance described in this review was given by the Institute of Mime, with the theme of mime in different times and different countries Cast members seem to have been mainly connected to Ginner-Mawer, but also included students of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
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Yorkshire Weekly Herald, 8 March 1935 The National Federation of Women’s Institutes (more regularly known as the WI) organised a one-day School of Mime in York. The reviewer held that the day was a success and that the WI were justified to have gone ahead with the event. “The Yorkshire
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Morning Post, 1934 Miss Mawer must have been hugely gratified with this review from the Morning Post – it is glowing. Interestingly, it tells us that the audience was made up mostly of young people, who were very happy to see an old play and were vocally quite loud. The review reads: “It
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Morning Post, 7 June 1934 Unusually, I have included an article which does not mention Miss Mawer. However, the newspaper clipping is in Miss Mawer’s private collection – so it must have been important to her. Further down the clipping, she has underlined a paragraph, which gives us the clue
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By the time this article was published in 1933, Classical Greek Dance (which was known as Revived Greek Dance) would be approximately 20 years old – with many of the early years being spent in developing and improving the technique. The opening comment demonstrates that it was still fairly uncommon
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Successful Recital of Mime unknown newspaper, 1928 In the lead up to Christmas, Miss Mawer presented a long and varied programme of mime. The reviewer felt that the evening’s entertainment was perhaps a little over-done, being a “…long and somewhat exhaustive programme.” The reviewer also felt that the results of
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