Flower Fairies “Flower Fairies™ are tiny creatures (the biggest is only 20cm tall) that live in the tree tops, marshes, forest floor, wayside and gardens. Wherever and whenever a seed sprouts, a Flower Fairy baby is born. Each Flower Fairy lives and sleeps in their chosen flower, plant or tree,
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Mime Parade 1937 It is interesting to see that Irene Mawer actually gave a whole paragraph to the subject of the Institute of Mime when she spoke at the celebrations for the 21st birthday of the Ginner-Mawer School, in 1937. She so rarely shone a light on her own work,
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What’s On The Menu? The whole evening celebration of the 21st birthday of the Ginner-Mawer School sounds as if it were a delightful affair, totally suited to the aspirations and inspirations of the two women who were putting their hearts and souls into the endeavour (as described in The Link,
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Origins of Ginner-Mawer Irene Mawer and Ruby Ginner were both trained by Elsie Fogerty, at the Central School for Speech and Dramatic Art in London. Both of the women revered Fogie (as she was nicknamed by all the students) and were forever grateful to her. Central School is where Irene
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Honourable Traditions 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,
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Constant, Faithful and Loyal What does steadfast mean? Being a native English speaker, I automatically think that I know what ‘steadfast’ means. But Irene Mawer said that one of the biggest compliments ever paid to her was when Edward Gordon Craig referred to Mawer and Ginner as being ‘steadfast’. Given
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The Confutation of Wisdom This one act play seems to have been popular in the 1930s; The Stage newspaper printed a calendar of productions and performers and on 4th April 1936 it lists Irene Mawer as being a member of the costume design team for a production of The Confutation
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Was he, or wasn’t he? That is the question. Was Leslie French trained at Ginner-Mawer, or wasn’t he? According to his obituaries, he wasn’t (or at least they don’t mention Ginner-Mawer), but then again the two obituaries that I have looked at also give different dates for various moments in
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Origins of Ginner-Mawer Irene Mawer and Ruby Ginner were both trained by Elsie Fogerty, at the Central School for Speech and Dramatic Art in London. Both of the women revered Fogie, as she was nicknamed by all the students, and were forever grateful to her. Central School is where Irene
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Irene Mawer devoted her whole life to the stage arts and all of the background to them. She believed wholeheartedly that movement and voice belonged together, and that to excel in one of them required at least a knowledge of the other. She realised that it was unlikely that someone
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