Bromley Mercury, Kent 28 June 1935 CHILDREN’S HEART HOSPITAL. Fete Opened By Lady Carey-Evans This long newspaper article describes an English garden party which, when run on a commercial basis, is known as a fete. Garden fete’s are a regular occurrence in England, where there is a massive reliance on
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Edinburgh Evening Dispatch, and, Edinburgh Evening News 24 May 1935 EDINBURGH PLAYGOERS’ CIRCLE Among Irene Mawer’s collection of news clippings relating to the Institute of Mime, are these two (pictured) which feature the Edinburgh Playgoers’ Circle. Both clippings simply state that the first annual general meeting has taken place and
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Newcastle Daily Journal 23 April 1935 LEAMSIDE AND WEST RAINTON It was only a tiny mention in a single paragraph, but it was a glowing report of success for Irene Mawer’s endeavor to enrich the lives of ordinary women through the auspices of mime. The article presumably speaks of one
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Newcastle Daily Journal 12 April 1935 EVENWOOD I am guessing that this newspaper article refers to a meeting of the Women’s Institute (WI). At this time, Irene Mawer was working closely with the WI through association with the Institute of Mime and the British Drama League. Teachers of mime, who
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Drama London April 1935 Today’s newspaper clipping is a very compact and precise review of the Rudolf Steiner Hall show that I wrote about last week. I really like this article as it says everything that needs to be said, in a succinct style. We learn that the performance was
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Dancing Times London April 1935 THE INSTITUTE OF MIME The reviewer who wrote this newspaper article enjoyed the mime performance very much and has written about it in a style different to those seen in other papers. Held at the Rudolf Steiner Hall, in London, on 2 March 1935, participants
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Birmingham Gazette 29 March 1935 Following on from the success of the previous year which had been held in London, a second day-school of mime was held at the Priory Rooms in Birmingham; a good move in combatting London-centric community programmes. Miss Mawer was to have a long connection with
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Birmingham Evening Dispatch 28 March 1935 MIDLAND STUDENTS OF MIMING This is one of my favourite newspaper cuttings. It tells a similar story to the previous cuttings, only this time, there was no lecture, it was pure action: a one-day School of Mime, given by Irene Mawer as the Director
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Yorkshire Herald, York 6 March 1935 VILLAGERS LEARN OLDEST ART IN THE WORLD This blog post continues the series of items which explores some of the newspaper clippings which Irene Mawer gathered throughout her career. When this article was published in 1935, Miss Mawer would have been in her
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Sussex Daily News 13 November 1933 The Oldest Art: mime demonstrated at Brighton Roedean is a private, fee-paying school in the south of England. This newspaper clipping describes a mime demonstration there, given by Irene Mawer. Reading this newspaper article in conjunction with the newspaper article described in one of my previous
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