granville-barker – Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement

A Hammersmith Matinee

The Era, Wednesday 18 June 1924 This afternoon performance was given in London at the King’s Theatre in Hammersmith. The article doesn’t say why the show was being put on – I thought at first that it might have been the exam performances, but I don’t think it was that.

May 9, 2023 Biography / Blog / ginner-mawer / Mime / voice

Central School Curriculum in 1930s.

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