Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement
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Successful Recital of Mime unknown newspaper, 1928 In the lead up to Christmas, Miss Mawer presented a long and varied programme of mime. The reviewer felt that the evening’s entertainment was perhaps a little over-done, being a “…long and somewhat exhaustive programme.” The reviewer also felt that the results of
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The Sketch, 1928All English L’Enfant Prodigue The author (JTG) of the newspaper review was tickled pink to have an all-English cast of six performers, who they praised very highly: “To say that the English actors gave a performance of rare unity, subtleness and power is no exaggeration. If Miss Irene
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Hi Everyone. Apologies for missing the blog post last week – I am concentrating so hard on getting my Irene Mawer book out, that I don’t even know what day it is. This is a short update to let you all know that my book is coming along extremely well –
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11 December 1959 Aberdeen Evening Express, Scotland The woman in this newspaper article is described as a member of the educational speech training staff – does this perhaps refer to speech therapy? She is Miss Joy Scaling and she lived in Scotland, where several of the newly trained speech therapists
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18 August 1955 The Stage In 1955 a letter was printed in The Stage, Britain’s leading theatre publication at that time, one year after the closure of the Ginner-Mawer School. The writer of the letter, Eileen Varley, had been a student at Ginner-Mawer and was obviously in favour of the
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