1959, Miss Joy Scaling
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 ...
elsie fogerty
Summer Shakespeare Festival
The Stage, 17 July 1952 London Theatres: At Cheltenham “Will Shakespeare” While the Ginner-Mawer School was based in Cheltenham, Irene mawer took the opportunity of producing items in the Contemporary Music Festival programme. In 1952, ...
Origins of Ginner-Mawer
Origins of Ginner-Mawer Irene Mawer and Ruby Ginner were both trained by Elsie Fogerty, at the Central School for Speech and Dramatic Art in London. Both of the women revered Fogie (as she was nicknamed ...
Professional Reciter
Professional Reciter Queen Victoria died in 1901, and the 63 years of her reign are known as the Victorian era. In 1937, Irene Mawer (then aged 44) described herself as having been ‘that Victorian phenomena ...
Origins of Ginner-Mawer
Origins of Ginner-Mawer Irene Mawer and Ruby Ginner were both trained by Elsie Fogerty, at the Central School for Speech and Dramatic Art in London. Both of the women revered Fogie, as she was nicknamed ...