Felicia Mallet
Felicia Mallet (1863-1928) was a French woman who taught mime to Elsie Fogerty (1865-1945), who in turn ‘let fall’ nuggets of knowledge to Irene Mawer (1893-1962) when she was a pupil at Fogerty’s Central School ...
l'enfant prodigue
Cercle Funambulesque
Unless otherwise stated, the quotes in this blog post are from an article written by Irene Mawer in The Link, which contained the newsletter of the Ginner-Mawer School of Mime and Movement, Miss Mawer wrote ...
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 ...
Hardly Any Mime Being Performed. April 1937
The Magazine – Programme 5 April 1937 This newspaper clipping states that hardly any mime was being performed in the theatres of London’s West End – even though there was a willing audience who would ...
L’Enfant Prodigue. November 1937
The Stage, London. 4 November 1937 This tiny clipping is a notice of a forthcoming mime play, called L’Enfant Prodigue – the role for which Irene Mawer was most famous. The show was due to ...