The Sketch, 1928All English L’Enfant Prodigue The author (JTG) of the newspaper review was tickled pink to have an all-English cast of six performers, who they praised very highly: “To say that the English actors gave a performance of rare unity, subtleness and power is no exaggeration. If Miss Irene
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11 December 1959 Aberdeen Evening Express, Scotland The woman in this newspaper article is described as a member of the educational speech training staff – does this perhaps refer to speech therapy? She is Miss Joy Scaling and she lived in Scotland, where several of the newly trained speech therapists
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18 August 1955 The Stage In 1955 a letter was printed in The Stage, Britain’s leading theatre publication at that time, one year after the closure of the Ginner-Mawer School. The writer of the letter, Eileen Varley, had been a student at Ginner-Mawer and was obviously in favour of the
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Hello to everyone who is checking in from the CGD link. Thank you for coming to see the Irene Mawer page. I had a fabulous time at the Festival Finals and it was wonderful to finally see live Classical Greek Dancing. I was entranced for the whole day. The only other time
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When the Birmingham School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art, (now known as the Birmingham School of Acting) first opened in 1937, Irene Mawer was the first of the guest lecturers. Miss Mawer lectured on mime, and brought some of the Ginner-Mawer girls with her to demonstrate her theories. This
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6th December 1933 Birmingham Daily Gazette There has been some conflicting information as to when the Ginner-School of Dance and Drama was first established. I have gathered together a body of evidence to prove that the date was, in fact, 1916 and this newspaper cutting will be added to my
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10 December 1927Perthshire Advertiser (Scotland) Although only a few lines long, this newspaper article is really sweet and extremely complimentary to Irene Mawer – it compares the joy of seeing Mawer to the joy of seeing the famous ballerina, Anna Pavlova. That is some comparison. (It is not suggesting that
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23 March 1927 The Era Girls’ Realm Guild Matinee The first item mentioned in this clipping is A Miracle of Saint Caterina, a mime play by Irene Mawer, which was one of her favourite and most well known pieces. A few years hence from this particular performance, the
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30 December 1911Buckingham Advertiser and Free Press 1911! Irene would have been 18 years old and possibly about to fall in love for the first time… She was due to appear in the play His Excellency the Governor at the Town Hall in Buckingham. It was this play, performed again
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This is me! I have been hearing so much about Artificial Intelligence recently, that I thought I might perhaps pop in a short post about me, so that you know that I am a real person. I live in England, but travel around Europe a lot in my camper van,
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