Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement
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The Magazine – Programme 5 April 1937 This newspaper clipping states that hardly any mime was being performed in the theatres of London’s West End – even though there was a willing audience who would have liked to have seen it and it goes on to give advance notice of
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Dancing Times, London December 1937 THE INSTITUTE OF MIME Irene Mawer gathered together a scrapbook full of cutting from newspapers, charting the progress of the Institute of Mime, which she founded in 1933. The attached photo shows an article printed in 1937 which gives an overview of
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CAPE Argus, Cape Town, South Africa 15 December 1937 Greek Dance Examination; Miss Hodson to Adjudicate I am unclear as to whether Miss Lesley Hodson was born in England or in South Africa. It seems that she may have been born in England, and moved to South Africa as an
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Belfast News Letter 11 December 1937 ULSTER DRAMA SCHOOL: Art of Mime and Planning of Production The initial event of the Drama School workshops received praise from the Belfast News Letter. On the Friday evening, the lecturers were Miss Helga Burgess and Mr Howard Hayden. Miss Burgess, a Fellow of
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Belfast Telegraph 11 December 1937 DRAMA SCHOOL IN BELFAST. Well-known Experts on Production and Acting In modern terms, we might call this a ‘pop-up’ drama school. Organised by the rural Development Council of Northern Ireland, the School comprised three sessions, one during the evening, and two the next day. Both
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