Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement
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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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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, this was a contribution by the local amateur societies, who presented Clemence Dane’s ‘Will Shakespeare’.
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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 by all the students) and were forever grateful to her. Central School is where Irene
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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 – a professional reciter’. Miss Mawer was born in 1893, thereby just sliding it at
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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 by all the students, and were forever grateful to her. Central School is where Irene
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