Mr and Mrs John Laurie. It pains me to refer to a woman only by her husband’s name, as in ‘Mrs John Laurie’. However, this is how women were normally referred to in England in the past, indeed, the not so distant past at that. In this blog post we
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Dancing Times This round-up of activities of the Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama opens with the bold news that Her Majesty Queen Mary attended a performance which included members of the Ginner-Mawer School, at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The Queen attended as patron of the Girls’ Friendly
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Dancing Times, London In this newspaper clipping, we can see that the Institute of Mime is going from strength to strength. The year had focused on educational aspects of mime, whereas in 1937 the focus had been on the artistic and stage side of things; and 1935/36 had
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The Times, London 25 August & High Peak News, Buxton 27 August The previous year’s pop-up drama school had been acknowledged as having been a big success, so it was to be repeated this year. The drama school was held by the British Drama League, under the banner of the
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Activities of Ginner-Mawer School. August 1938 Dancing Times This round-up of activities of the Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama opens with the bold news that Her Majesty Queen Mary attended a performance which included members of the Ginner-Mawer School, at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The Queen attended
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Lilian Braithwaite. This clipping from Irene Mawer’s collection relating to the Institute of Mime refers to Miss Lilian Braithwaite who was opening the event’s Easter Drama School of the British Drama League. I have yet to discover who Lilian Braithwaite was. The venue was King’s College Of Household
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Getting slightly out of sync with my blog posts, these two newspaper articles are from July 1937 and describe the “Mime Parade” show on 13 July 1937 at the Aldwych Theatre which I have written about previously. According to Drama London, the show presented both spoken and silent mimes –
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Belfast News Letter 13 December 1937 This newspaper clipping (see photo) covers a ‘pop-up’ drama school which I have written about in the previous few blog posts. However, for the first time, there is a hint that the event was not as popular as might have been hoped “…there were
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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 Ooh, I bet Irene Mawer was not pleased when she read this article printed in the Belfast Telegraph. At the top of the article, the first word of the first line under the heading is ‘deportment’. I recall chatting with Ann
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