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Show 1 -" WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features WNU Service.) NEW YORK. For IS years, unable un-able to see or move, Edward Sheldon has lain motionless, with a black satin mask over his eyes, and r. , c, 'n that time tdward bneldon, nas dictated Zy tl 1 D cowpral nf thf UL1IIU 1 lu Ur j ., , - . Wins Court Suit 1 . P 1 " y 8 which have established him as a leading American Amer-ican dramatist. Calm in his affliction, afflic-tion, he found that he had gained even a larger world, in his New York penthouse room, as he drew his friends to him, not in compassion, compas-sion, but in eager working partnership partner-ship in the theater. Producers, actors and dramatists find him an invaluable friend and consultant. His tireless and creative mind knows no darkness or failure. The United States Supreme court awards to Mr. Sheldon and his col-I col-I laborator, Margaret Ayres Barnes, OCl nor rani nt tha COT fiflS nr-fito from the film "Letty Lynton," sustaining sus-taining 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 court's biggest Broadway hit since Kaufman and Connelly put it in "Of Thee I Sing." J Young Edward Sheldon, wealthy, gifted and handsome, Harvard '07, was a run-away success, with his first play, "Salvation Nell," produced pro-duced in 1908. With the late Sidney Howard, he had written the play "Bewitched" when he was stricken with paralysis and blindness in 1924. "Years of Grace," written thereafter, there-after, brought him the Pulitzer Prize, in 1931. Miss Barnes, his collaborator, overcame similar disaster in find- incr hpr wav infn haw -.- o " t.m, uibu uci kaica. 1.111- ically injured in an automobile ac-1 ac-1 cident in France, in 1925, she lay ' for months in a plaster cast. Her 1 hands were free to write something some-thing she always had hoped to do. She wrote a novel, and, recovering, returned to America, found a publisher pub-lisher and an open road ahead in authorship. Like Edward Sheldon, she also is a Chicagoan. TN THE year 1800, the United States Marine band, formed in 1798, had two oboes, two clarinets, two french horns, a bassoon, a snare Branson Retires As Band Leader stuck for a After 41 Years oassdrum. 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 Grant's wedding and at the funeral of every President who died in office. of-fice. Capt Taylor Branson lays down his baton after 41 years with the band, and 13 years as its leader. The band and the captain together have paced forward quite a stretch of American history, to the enrichment enrich-ment of the national musical annals. an-nals. The marches which Captain Branson has composed, foot-ticklers all of them, include "Tell It to the Marines," "Marines of Belleau Wood," "The President's Own," and Eagle, Globe and Anchor " Of distinguished professional attainments, attain-ments, he has delved deeply into our national musical lore and is an authority on the various tributary streams of folk music which have flowed Into it Among his prede-cesser, prede-cesser, as Naders of the band : have been John Philip Sousa. Fran- 1 Cisco Fanciulle and W. H. Santel-mann. Santel-mann. whose son, William F s.,, - ",dn"' wnse son, William F. Santcl-mann Santcl-mann now succeeds him infnl!' taU' weieh'ng 200 pounds, impressive and commanding n his sonTdCnK Unifrm' CaP,ai" Bran! fn w K,bee" 8 consPicuous figure in Washington and he and his band have been inseparable from d a matte moments at the capital. He was born in Washington in 1881 and entered the band as a clarinet play er late In 1898. In recont p radio has carried his fame beyo, d Washington. Jlra Td XV? Pcyt0n Gor" of w federal district court of Washington, may fold a durnble imprint in legal history books f th" ever rendered h, ' .,.UJch dec,s,on ever rendered by a fcd,"r-.i C'S'0n w-arte" ' ..ffi as assistant U S H . Eover"H-nt, Washington.' 1? Harding named him LS' ?SKcn "e and Prcsidem CZ "' Pointed him )ustlce 0f tn court of Washington S,l,"ro' hard-hitting prosecutor U ,u X Pot Dome nnd . . Jn ,,ho tempt c;,,os , i"'l'l;lir c" vcd as a n, ?"rltl '"' b- - Sir,,: wh |