Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-04-18
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

| nj GW 1OIth.-f OF 10 years, I'M
able to see or move, Edward
Sheldon has lain motionless, with a
black satin mask over his eyes, and
Ed.Oard Sheldon, has 'il Dictated s
Blind Playwright, several of the
Wins Court Suit Is plays
which have
established him as leading Amer
lean dramatist. Calm in his aff1ic-
ton, he found that he had gained
even larger world, in his New
York penthouse room, as he drew
his friends to him, not in compass
sion, but in eager working 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
laborator, Margaret Ayres Barnes,
20 per cent of the $587 sos profits
from the film LEFTY Lynton," sus-
tanning their contention that the film
infringed the copyright of their play
"Dishonored Lady" The decision,
the elimination of eight years of
litigation, marks the Supreme
courts biggest Broadway hit since
Kaufman and Connolly put it in "Of
Thee Sing"
Young Edward Sheldon, wealthy,
| gifted and handsome, Harvard '07,
was runaway success, with his
first play, Salvation Nell,'' 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 there
after, brought him the Pulitzer
Prize, in 1881.
Miss Barnes, his collaboration,
overcame similar disaster in find
ing her way into her career. Crit
ically injured in an automobile ac-
cident in France, in 1925, she lay
| for months in a plaster cast. Her
hands were free to write-some-
thing she always had hoped to do.
She wrote novel, and, recovering,
returned to America, found a pub
Usher and an open road ahead in
authorship. Like Edward Sheldon,
she also is Chicagoan.
IN THE year 1900, the United
L States Marine band, formed in
1898, had two oboes, two clarinets,
two french horns, a bassoon, a snare
Bronson Retires they were
As Band Leader stuck for a
After III Years pass drum 1t
took them six
months to promote one. However,
they got it in time to play at John
Adams inaugural in 1901, and have
played at every inaugural, at Nellie
Grants wedding and at the funeral
of every President who died in of
fee.
Capt. Taylor Branson lays down
his baton after Al years with the
band, and Is years as its leader.
The band and the captain together
have paced forward quite stretch
of American history, to the enrich
ment of the national musical an
nails. The marches which Captain
Branson has composed, foot-ticklers
all of them, include ''Tell 1t to the
Marines" Marines of Belleau
Wood" The Presidents Own" and
eagle, Globe and Anchor" Of
distinguished professional 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-
cessors as leaders of the band
have been John Philip Sousa, Fran
cisco Fanciulle and w. H. Santel-
mann, whose son, William F. Santel-
mann now succeeds him.
Six feet tall, weighing 200 pounds,
impressive and commanding in his
respondent uniform, Captain Bran
son has been conspicuous figure
in Washington and he and his band
have been inseparable from dra-
matte moments at the capital. He
was born in Washington in 1881 and
entered the band as clarinet play
er late in 1898. In recent years
radio has carried his fame beyond
Washington.
THE name of Judge Peyton Cor
don of the federal district court
of 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 prac-
tees. 1t is the first such decision
ever rendered by 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 1921, President
Harding named him district attor-
ney and President Coolidge APP
pointed him justice of the Supreme
court of Washington. He was a
hard-hitting prosecutor in the Tea
pot Dome and later Sinclair con-
tempt cases. In the World war he
served as a major in the Judge