Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 19 July 1941

Dancing Success.

Mary Archer, nine years old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Archer, of 4, Stokewell Road, West Melton, and grand-daughter of Coun. and Mrs. J. A. Braithwaite, has recently passed with honours in a third grade ballet examination in which she gained 95 marks out of a possible 100 She also reached the “very good” standard in a juvenile tap dancing examination.

Her teacher is Miss L. Hainsworth. of Sheffield, and the adjudicator was Espinosa, chairman of the British Ballet Organisation.

Mary, who is a pupil of the Brampton Ellis Junior School has now passed three examinations in dancing with honours. She has been learning dancing for just over two years