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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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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