| Description | Annotated album documenting the tour of the Ginner-Mawer Company (47 ladies) along with Ruby Ginner and Irene Mawer to Athens, Greece. The album contains:
a piece of stock from the bouquet presented to each member of the Company at their performance at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus on 29 April 'From the People of Athens'; 81 photographs of: panoramic view of The Acropolis and Mount Lykabettos; Ruby Ginner at the Acropolis; Views of the Parthenon; The Acropolis; Mount Lykabettos; Temple of Nike Apteros; Erechthieon; the Propylea to the Acropolis; the Ginner-Mawer Company; Ruby Ginner and Irene Mawer; members of the Company on the Acropolis; Theatre of Dionysus; Irene Mawer as Santa Caterina, 29 April; (a carnation from the bouquet given to Miss Ginner, 29 April); The temple of Poseidon; Sounion; Daphni; (a feather from a blue bird at Marathon); a relief to commemorate the Greeks who fell at the Battle of Marathon; Eleusis; Temple of Demeter; ancient theatre at Delphi; 'Prometheus Bound' at the Delphi 1930; soldiers rehearsing for the Delphic Games in the stadium at Delphi; the antique stadium; the Treasury of the Athenians; soldiers rehearsing a Pyrrhic dance; shepherds of Parnassus dancing in the village; street scene in Brindisi, Italy; the Company disembarking for the steamer; Corfu; rehearsal in the Herodes Atticus Theatre, 28 April; the Ginner-Mawer Company in a group at the Parthenon; several images of the Company in dress; performers in 'Prometheus Bound'; Greek soldiers on the Acropolis.
The front and back pages of the album contain handwritten quotes from Keats and Jeffers. There are several photographs missing throughout the album. |