Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement
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(Ada) Rosina Bassett/Baroness von Kuhne 1909-2002 During my Irene Mawer research, I came across one of Mawer’s books ‘Twelve Mime Plays’. Inside the flyleaf were written two names: Rosina Bassett 1934, and another name which looks something like Minnie A. S. Satchell, who was possibly Rosina’s “cousin ‘Minnie’ who had
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(Isabel) Sheila Evans This is another in the occasional series of blog posts which focuses on the women who were trained at the Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama. Today’s post highlights Isabel Sheila Evans, who was always known as Sheila. While at school in Broadstairs (Kent), which would have been
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Miss Melusine Wood In 1933 and 1934 we hear about a woman called Miss Melusine Wood. Melusine is not a name I have come across before and according to Wikipedia it is a French word from European folklore, meaning ‘a female spirit of fresh water in a holy well or
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From an article in The Link, July 1934, p.6, we learn that there was to be a Summer School of the Central School of Speech Training at the Royal Albert Hall. It was to be attended by delegates of the Drama League. The inaugral lecture-demonstration in Mime was to be
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Italian Marionettes The Link, July 1934, p.247 From time to time, Irene Mawer’s husband, Mark Edward Perugini, was editor of The Link, which was ‘The Journal of the Association of Teachers of the Revived Greek Dance; the Z Club; the Ginner-Mawer School; and of all who are interested
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