Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON consolidated features service NEW JEW YORK for 16 years un able to see or move edward sheldon has lain motionless with a black satin mask over his eyes and edward f 71 sheldon CL u in m that time I 1 has related dictated blind playwright several of the wins court suit 15 1 5 plays which have established him as a leading american can dramatist calm in his affliction 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 but in eager working partnership in the theater brodu producers cers 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 collaborator lab orator margaret ayres barnes 20 per cent of the profits from 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 I 1 courts biggest broadway hit since 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 produced 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 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 1925 she lay for months in a plaster cast her hands were free to write something she always had hoped to ito do she wrote a novel and recovering returned to america found a publisher and an open road ahead in authorship like edward sheldon she also is a chicagoan 0 IN TN THE year 1800 the united 1 states marine band formed in 1798 had two oboes two clarinets two trench french horns a bassoon a snare drum but bronson retires they were As band leader stuck for a after 41 years bass drum it II took them six months to promote one however they got it in time to play at john adams inaugural in 1801 and ha have V e 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 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 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 into it among his predecessors as leaders of the band have been john philip sousa francisco fanciullo Fanci ulle and W H whose son william F now succeeds him six feet tall weighing pounds impressive and commanding in his respondent uniform captain 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 1898 in recent years radio has carried his fame beyond washinton washington adon THE HE name of judge peyton gor don of the tha federal district court 0 of f washington may find a durable imprint in legal history books 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 fra ud and customs cases for the government as assistant U S district attorney in washington in 1921 president harding named him district attorney and president coolidge appointed him justice of the supreme court of washington he was a hard hitting prosecutor in the teapot dome and later sinclair contempt esses cases in the world war he ser served ved as a major in the jud judge ge advocate generals corps he was born in washington in 1870 and was educated at columbia sity ity |