Let’s Not Pretend – Mawer’s Technique
For some time, I have been struggling with how to tell you what Miss Mawer’s mime technique was like. I have been looking for ways to describe it in words. I still haven’t found my ...
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Mime Parade 1937
Mime Parade 1937 It is interesting to see that Irene Mawer actually gave a whole paragraph to the subject of the Institute of Mime when she spoke at the celebrations for the 21st birthday of ...
Mr & Mrs John Laurie
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 ...
Avice Spitta Landone
Avice Spitta Landone (1910-1976) During the party to celebrate the 21st birthday of the Ginner-Mawer School in 1934, Irene Mawer mentioned several former students who had gone on to do well for themselves. Among them ...
Frascati’s
In 1937 the Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama celebrated its 21st birthday. By this time Miss Mawer had been married, widowed, married again, lived through a World War, worked with Sybil Thorndike and Lewis ...