Institute of Mime – Page 16 – Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement

All the World’s a Stage

August 8, 2023 Biography / Blog / ginner-mawer / Mime / voice

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 was Avice Spitta, later known as Avice Landone. I got very excited because I discovered

August 1, 2023 Biography / Blog / ginner-mawer / Mime / voice

British Empire Shakespeare Society

In 1954, while Ruby Ginner was heading for retirement and the Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama was being wound up, Irene Mawer continued to teach in Cheltenham for three days a week (Cheltenham Chronicle, 2nd Oct 1954). I don’t know where the classes were held, but throughout her life,

June 27, 2023 Biography / Blog / ginner-mawer / Mime / voice

Melusine Wood

Miss Melusine Wood In 1933 and 1934 we hear about a woman called Miss Melusine Wood. Melusine is not a name I have come across before and according to Wikipedia it is a French word from European folklore, meaning ‘a female spirit of fresh water in a holy well or

June 20, 2023 Biography / Blog / ginner-mawer / Mime / voice

Miss Joyce Ruscoe

From an article in The Link, July 1934, p.6, we learn that there was to be a Summer School of the Central School of Speech Training at the Royal Albert Hall. It was to be attended by delegates of the Drama League. The inaugral lecture-demonstration in Mime was to be