Morning Post, London 4 March 1935 Title of Newspaper Article: ‘Wordless Drama of Conviction: two and a half hours of silent charm.’ My comments: Two and a half hours of silent charm! Two and a half hours without any words? That is a l-o-n-g time. That show must have been
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Edinburgh Evening Dispatch 4 March 1935 Even the tiniest newspaper article was of interest to Irene Mawer. This one, is another which relates to the performance or performances given in Scotland during March 1935. We learned from previous accounts that students from Edinburgh took part in the performance given in
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Mimes of Many Periods Part of the role of the Institute of Mime (which was founded by Irene Mawer) was to enable mime performances to take place around Britain, with all participants working to the same high technical and expressive standards. In this newspaper clipping (see attached photo), we read
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Birmingham Mail 21 Feb 1935 Title of Newspaper Article: Mime We have seen from my recent blog posts that Irene Mawer, through her Institute of Mime in association with the Women’s Institute (WI) gave lecture-demonstrations in Scotland and in York. Today’s newspaper clipping gives us advance notice that the
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This is another in a series of blog posts which are based on newspaper articles. Among Irene Mawer’s papers left at the time of her death, was an A4-sized hardback book, full of these cuttings which give us a good overview of much of Irene’s career. This newspaper cutting is
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This article is taken from a clipping in the British Newspaper Archive (britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) and was printed in a paper called The Era on 8 July 1936. It is a review of one of the many performances given by the students at the Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama. Although this
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Today’s blog post is a copy of an article printed in an old newspaper. The article is taken from a newspaper cutting, found on the website of the British newspaper Archive (britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) The writer of the article is not named and makes the unfortunate assertion, right at the start, that
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Irene Rose Mawer was born on 13th March 1893, to Henry Mawer (known as Harry) and Rosina Alberta Mawer (nee Turner). As the sixth and final child, Irene was born into an affluent family in the Wandsworth borough of Surrey which, following boundary changes, later became part of London. One
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