Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LE LEMUEL M UEL F PART PARTON 0 r consolidated creatures anu service YORK for 18 10 years unable NEW to seo see or move edward sheldon has lain motionless with a black back satin mask over his hi leyes and in that time edward sheldon has dictated blind playwright several oi of tho the 15 P I 1 a y a wins win court suit which have established him as a leading american dramatist calm in his affliction he found that ho had gained even a larger world in his new york penthouse room as ho he drew his friends to him not in compassion but in eager working partnership in the theater producers actors and dramatists find and him an invaluable friend and consul consultant tent ills his tireless and creative mind knows no me darkness or failure the united states supreme court awards to mr sheldon and his collaborator lab orator margaret ayres barnes 20 per cent of tho the profits from tho the film letty lynton sustaining their contention that the film infringed the copyright of their play dishonored lady the decision the culmination of eight years of litigation marks the supreme courts biggest broadway hit since kautman kaufman and connelly put it in of thee I 1 sing young edward sheldon wealthy gifted and handsome harvard 07 was a runaway run away success with his first play salvation nell nela 11 produced in 1908 with tho late sidney howard he had written tho the play bewitched when ho he was stricken with paralysis and blindness in 1924 years of grace written thereafter brought him the pulitzer prize in 1931 miss barnes his collaborator overcame similar disaster in finding her way into her career critically injured in an automobile accident in france in IM 1925 she lay tor for months in a plaster cast her hands were free to write something she always had hoped to do she wrote a novel and recovering returned to america fo found und a publisher and an open road ahead in authorship like edward sheldon she also is a chicagoan IN TN THE year 1800 the united A states marine band formed in 1798 had two oboes two clarinets two french horns a bassoon a snare drum but bronson retires they were As band leader stuck for a alter after 41 years year SM bass drum it took them six months to promote one however they got it in time to play at john adams inaugural in 1801 and have played at every inaugural at nellie grants wedding and at the funeral of every president who died in office capt taylor branson lays down his baton after 41 years with wl th the band and 13 years as its leader the band and tho the captain together have paced forward quite a stretch of american history to the enrichment of the national musical annals the marches which captain branson has composed foot ticklers all of them include tell it to the marines marines of belleau wood the presidents own and eagle globe and anchor of distinguished professional attainments he has delved deeply into our national musical lore and is an authority on the various tributary streams of folk music which have flowed lowed into it among his h Is predecessors as leaders of the band have been john philip sousa francisco and W 11 whose son william F r now succeeds him six feet tall weighing pounds impressive and commanding in hla his respondent respond e nt uniform un I 1 form captain calta in branson has been a conspicuous figure in washington and he and his band have been inseparable from dramatic moments at the capital he was born in washington in 1881 and entered the band as a clarinet player late in adga in recent years radio has carried his tame fame beyond washington THE HE name of judge peyton gordon of the federal district court of washington may find and a durable imprint in legal history books it if the higher courts sustain his finding that the government may prosecute labor unions for monopolistic practices it is the first such decision ever rendered by a federal court in the field of union jurisdictional warfare for 20 years he fought fraud and customs cases for the government as assistant U S district attorney in washington in 1021 1921 president harding named him district attorney and president coolidge Coolid go appointed him justice of the supreme court of washington he was a hard hitting prosecutor in the teapot dome and later sinclair contempt cases in the world war he s served as a major in the judge advocate generals corps H he e was born in washington in 1870 1871 D and was educated at columbia university |