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 ...
Mime
Dame Margot Fonteyn
There is a very slight and very tenuous link between the Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama and one of the world’s greatest ever ballerinas – Dame Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991). Born in England, Margot was ...
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 ...
Old School Tie
The following couple of paragraphs are taken from the write-up of the evening celebrations for the 21st anniversary of the Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama (The Link, April 1938, p.10): “Owing to the recent ...
Holloway Prison Visit by Irene Mawer
Irene Mawer cared about people. Not only were many of the Ginner-Mawer performances charity fund-raisers, but I think that she in herself was a caring person. Her Great-Niece speaks very highly of the care and ...