RECORD ENTRIES Miss Lorraine Norton.

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 99, 23 October 1940, Page 14

RECORD ENTRIES

Miss Lorraine Norton.

GRADE DANCING TESTS

SYDNEY EXAMINER'S TASK

With the record number of 600 children to examine this year, Miss Lorraine Norton, grade examiner for the Royal Academy of Dancing (London) and associate teacher at the Frances Scully School of Dancing (Sydney), is finding her time in New Zealand very fully occupied. Children from as far north as Tauranga and Whangarei have been examined and in the south, besides entrants from the country surrounding Christchurch, Timaru, and Dunedin centres there are child candidates from Greymouth and other comparatively remote districts. Some even flew over to Wellington from Blenheim to be examined.

When interviewed between examinations yesterday afternoon Miss Norton laughingly declined to compare the

Standards of dancing in Australia and New Zealand, but commented favourably instead on the high level maintained by this year's candidates in their various grades. Miss Norton is an examiner of many years' standing and is solo seal member of the Royal Academy of Dancing (London), holder of the Advanced Teachers' Certificate (honours), member of the Cecchetti Society (highly commended), and a fellow (op.) of the Imperial Society of Dance Teachers. Miss Norton intends to conduct a summer school of dancing in New Zealand at the conclusion of the examinations and before she returns to Sydney by the Mariposa at the end of next month will have spent a fortnight teaching in Wellington and another week in Auckland. The idea of aj summer school was mooted by several < New Zealand teachers who would normally have visited Sydney had the time been more opportune. a Luncheon party. Wellington teachers gave a "welcome" luncheon to Miss Norton on Monday at the Hotel St. George, when Miss Jean Home was hostess. Among those present were Mrs. Barton Ginger, Misses Gwen Gibbs (Falmerston North), Dorothy . Daniels, Phyllis Oliver, Kathleen Bartosh, Marjorie Newport, Phyllis O'Shea, Shona Bennetts, Joan Watson, Margaret Oates, Vivienne Platt, Joan Mabin, Gertrude Shardlow, Hazel Martin, Joan Tandy, and Melba Duncan. The guest of honour was given a lovely bouquet of hot-house carnations. Members of the Australasian Society of Dancing Teachers will entertain Miss Norton at a supper party before she leaves on Friday for the south, teachers from Hawke's Bay and Palmerston North will be among the 50 guests expected.