Central School in 1930s. Irene Mawer trained under Elsie Fogerty at the Central School of Speech and Drama in 1914/15/16. Mawer had done some training and had taken paid employment before enrolling at Central, so she was already 21 years of age when she started there. Fogie discovered that Mawer
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The following couple of paragraphs are taken from the write-up of the evening celebrations for the 21st anniversary of the Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama (The Link, April 1938, p.10): “Owing to the recent illness of Miss Fogerty, the chair was kindly taken by Mr. P. J. S. Richardson,
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Irene Mawer cared about people. Not only were many of the Ginner-Mawer performances charity fund-raisers, but I think that she in herself was a caring person. Her Great-Niece speaks very highly of the care and attention that Aunt Irene lavished on her young relatives. Money was not in great supply,
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Connecting Rose Bruford and Irene Mawer In this blog post, I will explain how Rose Bruford and Irene Mawer are strongly connected through the art of mime. Bruford was a pupil of Mawer, and was strongly influenced by her, but was also open to other styles of mime, such as
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A cabaret is a performance given (usually in a nightclub) while the audience sit at tables where they can eat a meal or have a drink. The entertainment to celebrate the 21st Birthday of the Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama is referred to as having been a cabaret. The
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This blog post is part of a report in The Link, describing the party given to celebrate the 21st birthday of the Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama. It refers to Phillip Richardson (1875-1963) who had an important part to play during the evening. It is interesting to note that
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In 1937 the Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama celebrated its 21st birthday. By this time Miss Mawer had been married, widowed, married again, lived through a World War, worked with Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson in The Trojan Women, and also in Medea, published The Dance of Words, visited
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Cigarette, anyone? It came as a huge shock to me to find out that Irene Mawer probably smoked cigarettes. In our modern age, it is almost incomprehensible that an athlete (which a dancer surely is) would smoke, but of course, attitudes (and knowledge) were completely different in those
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During the dinner given to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the start of the Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama, Effie Williams “made a presentation to the School and to its two Principals on behalf of the Ginner-Mawer Old Girls’ Club. The gift to the School was a most beautiful shield
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Edith Sitwell’s Influence at the 21st Birthday Party Today’s blog post is definitely one of my favourites. I have had such fun researching it. It started with me reading the report of the 21st Birthday Party for the Ginner-Mawer School (1937). I had no idea that the write-up in The
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