DANCER'S SUCCESS
BALLET EXAMINATIONS PRAISE BY LONDON TEACHER By passing three dancing examinations of th)' British Pallet Organisation one time, a 11'-year-old Auckland girl, Rowena Jackson, daughter ol Mr. aml Mrs. W. Jackson. of Clonborn Pond. I'eniuera. has performed a feat equalled by only one other girl. a Kimlish dancer. Mr. Leon Kspinosa. who has been conducting the examinations of the organisation, and who left lor Austialj :l ] >v tin- Niagara mi Monday night, said Miss .lackson was a .lancer of outstanding promise. She passed her pre liiniuarv examination with pel cent, the highest marks lie had over awarded, and on Monday morning she was highly commended in the elementary examination. The same afternoon she took tile intermediate examination and was again highly commended. Mr. Kspinosa said that when lie came to New Zealand he did not oxpeet to meet dancers of particular note, but in Miss Jackson and a girl at Wellington, he had found young performers of unusual merit.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23101, 28 July 1938, Page 4
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