Seven of the saxophone players in the Gault Intermediate School band and orchestra practise their parts for the May 1938 school production of the operetta "Tahiti." The young musicians are, front row (l to r), Jack Potter, Marjorie Melvin and Eugene Lombardi. Back row (l to r), Dick Norton, Earl Duncanson, Francis Smith and Arthur Bailey. The plot of the operetta was written by the girls in Miss Betty Harding's Glee Club at Gault. The 15 cast members, and the musicians, were supported by dancers and other performers.(T. Times 5/13/1938, pg. 22)
Public schools--Tacoma--1930-1940; Gault Junior High School (Tacoma); Youth orchestras--Tacoma--1930-1940; Saxophones; Potter, Jack; Melvin, Marjorie; Lombardi, Eugene; Norton, Dick; Duncanson, Earl; Smith, Francis; Bailey, Arthur;