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WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) EW YORK.—For 16 years, un- ’ able to see or move, Edward Sheldon has Iain motionless, with a black satin mask over his eyes, and cj , ,, in that time Edward Sheldon, has dictated Blind Playwright, several of the Wins Court Suit 1 ®. Plays which have established him as a leading Amer ican dramatist. Calm in his 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 compas 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 $587,605 profits from the film "Letty Lynton,” 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.” Young Edward Sheldon, wealthy, gifted and handsome, Harvard ’07, was a run-away 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 1931. Miss Barnes, his collaborator, 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 a novel, and, recovering, returned to America, found a pub lisher and an open road ahead in authorship. Like Edward Sheldon, she also is a Chicagoan. I N THE year 1800, the United States Marine band, formed in 1798, had two oboes, two clarinets, two french horns, a bassoon, a snare _ „ . drum, but Bronton Retires they were As Band Leader stuck for a After 41 Years bas , s 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 Grant’s wedding and at the funeral of every President who died in 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 enrich ment of the national musical 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 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 kon, 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 a conspicuous figure in Washington and he and his band have been inseparable from dra matic moments at the capital. He was born in Washington in 1881 and entered the band as a clarinet play er late in 1898. In recent years radio has carried his fame beyond Washington. T HE name of Judge Peyton Gor 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 tices. 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 1921, President Harding named him district attor ney and President Coolidge ap 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 Advocate General’s corps. He was born in Washington, in 1870, and was educated at Columbia univer sity. THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1940 Kathleen Norris Says: Young Wives, Beware! (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) Yesterday a lawyer from BilFs town called on me. gotten possession of these letters. By KATHLEEN NORRIS HEN the mother of a 16 or 18-year-old girl advises her against doing something, or warns her about it, she is usually actuated by pure affection and loy alty to her daughter. She knows that the years between 16 and 25 are the years when a woman who is indiscreet, reckless, inexperienced, can throw away all the happiness of her later years. Thousands of girls do, and live to regret it for the rest of their lives. But somehow they never will be lieve that their mothers are right. ‘Mother Old-Fashioned.’ "My mother hasn’t the least idea of how things are today,” they write me. “Mama is so old-fashioned that it’s perfectly maddening. Mama thinks the most innocent things are dangerous. Mother doesn’t want me to have any fun. My mother is always afraid of what the neighbors will think.” Any explanation of her anxieties will do, except that she is your mother, and loves you, and wants you to grow safely to honorable and happy womanhood, and not make mistakes. “My mother talked to me the night before I was married,” writes a Pennsylvania woman, “and if I’d taken her advice seriously I might have spared myself the misery I’m in today. But I always thought of Mother as straightlaced and fussy, and I didn’t pay much attention. She told me always to put Len first in everything, and like all brides, I did make a great* fuss over him at first. We had a dear little boy and were very happy for the first few years. Knew Billy as Girl. “Then a man I will call Billy turned up. I had known him as a girl, and we had had a pretty ex citing love affair, of which I had told Len. Nc*hing wrong, but we had been engaged, and I thought Len ought to know. “Mother had never liked Billy, partly because he is divorced, part ly because he is quite a sport. But he is very attractive to women, and when he showed that he still ad mired me I didn’t mind making Van a little jealous. This worried Moth er terribly, for she adores Van. “When Billy went away after a short visit he asked me to corre spond with him. He sent me books and articles, once a beautiful hand kerchief, and once perfume. His letters were amusing and admiring and I answered them, saying a good deal more than I really felt. This was about a year ago. We wrote each other about every 10 days, so I suppose he has at least 30 of my letters. Bill’s Lawyer Appears. “Yesterday a lawyer from Bill’s town called on me with a great deal of discretion and secrecy that drove me nearly mad. He says that Bill’s wife has gotten possession of these letters. Never having dreamed that he was married at all, I was shocked beyond words. I said that I had not known that Mr. D. was married, whereupon this horrible man said, ‘But you knew you were, didn’t you?’ She wants $1,500 for the letters or she will sue for di vorce, naming me. Some of these letters I signed ‘Your-little-wife- that-should-have-been,’ and others the pet names he had given me in his letters. Our actual relationship was always strictly within the bonds of morality, of course. “I did not close my eyes last night and I am half frantic today. At first this lawyer said he would be here until I decided what to do, but he telephoned this morning to say he is going back to Trenton, and will wait to hear from me. What maddens me was that I have never been in love with Bill, but only enjoyed this correspondence as a sort of romance. My husband and child are my very lifeblood, and any thought of trouble at home breaks my heart. I do not even know that Bill is married; it may be that he needs money and trusts he will get it this way. For the sake of a home, a good husband and an inno cent baby do, do help me find some way out!” Thrills at an End. Poor Joan, she has had a whole year of flattery and excitement and Be says that BilTs wife has Warning to Wives Here is a warning to young wives of 1940, who think they can eat their cake and have it to. Many young wives, according to Kathleen Norris, seem to feel that once the security of a home and husband is their’s they can put that security on the shelf and start looking around for new playthings. But that style of living doesn't al ways work out. Sometimes the little lady gets burned. Mothers still insist that their young daughters who are married should put friend husband first in their hearts. But the daughters often think that Mother is old-fash ioned and doesn't know about "mod ern” men. Usually though, they learn that Mother is right. Naturally it’s all right to know men other than your hus band but “affairs”—no matter how in nocent—are out. And if the mistake is ever made—if Mrs. Young Wife does engage in an “affair”—she had better tell Hubby and start all over again. Unless she does tell him she isn’t playing fair and some day she’ll get caught. Then it may be too late to forget. the thrill of a secret love affair, she has made nothing of Len’s rights and Len’s dignity, and now she ex pects to be extricated from it in a few minutes! The mischief has been far too long in building for that. Her only way out is one of hu miliation and courage and risk. Joan has been stuffing greedily on poisonous sweets for 12 whole months. Now for emetics and cas tor oil and general wretchedness. For she will have to tell the whole story to her husband at once, and have him get in touch with some friend in Trenton, or some city authority, who can find out exactly what the engaging Billy’s marital status is. If he really is married, then Van, Joan’s husband, might write him, remind him that he has some letters from Joan, and ask their return. This may work, in asmuch as Billy may not want trouble with his wife over them, should Joan turn the tables and in form her of anything that has been going on. If Billy isn’t married, the matter is comparatively simple. Joan’s husband may ask for the letters, thus showing Billy that he knows of their existence, and so spiking Billy’s guns on blackmail. Then forget the whole thing. Joan Must Confess. Whatever the outcome, Joan’s complete confession to her husband must be the next step. “And is it a crime to write to a man when you’re married to an other?” many a young wife who is playing with the same sort of fire may indignantly demand. No, but the advice of Joan’s mother was good advice. Put your husband first. Don’t do anything that you wouldn’t like him to do. Keep your men friends, of course. But keep them as a wife, not a flirt. Act like a woman embarked upon a serious business, not a free lance still in the market for affairs. There’s no law against writing letters, affec tionate, romantic, emotional, to a married man. There’s no law against making a complete fool of yourself. There’s no law against living on chocolate cake and sleep ing in a bathtub. Terrible Alternative. For a long time after this scald ing experience Joan will be a very meek and devoted little wife. She’ll have to be. The alternative, di vorce, and the surrender of her child, as being an unfit mother, is too expensive. A few of those ‘ ‘little - wife - that-should - have - been” letters would convince any court of domestic relations that Joan was a pretty flighty parent. She’s now put a strong weapon into Van’s hands. For months, perhaps for years, he won’t believe anything she says. If she demonstrates affection for him, if she cuddes the small boy, praises her home, expresses herself as hap py, Van may look on with a cold and unconvinced eye. So don’t despise mother’s sugges tions, you younger girls. They have been won from that same hard school of experience that you have to face. They form that most valu able possession that a wife or any other woman can have. The im palpable, undefinable, indispensable thing called CODE. By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) EBECCA” was released -Tv at last, a few weeks ago, j and people are still arguing about it; the chances are that the arguments will continue for a long, long time. For it’s one of those cases of “If you liked the book you probably won’t like the picture.” That’s unfortunate, because the picture is superb. Hitch cock, the top-notch English director, handled it unusually well. Technically, it could hardly be bettered. The eerie, supernat ural feeling that pervaded the book has been admirably brought to the screen. Joan Fontaine, under Hitchcock’s direction, gave such a performance that she has proved her right to being known as an excellent actress in her own right; the time may come when Olivia de Havilland will be known as “Joan Fontaine’s sis ter,” instead of its being the other way round. The entire cast is ex ceptionally good; it’s one of the best pictures that have come out of Hol lywood in a long, long time. So, even though you were quite mad about the book, dor’t miss seeing it * For the first time in recent years the Legion of Decency cracked down on a pic ture made by a major studio when it stepped on “Strange Car go,” the Joan Crawford - Clark Gable film. One of the objections was that there were “lustful im plications in dia logue and situa tion.” This pic ture, incidentally, had already been passed by the Pro. duction Code administration. * Barbara Stanwyck is very proud of the gift with which Robert Taylor celebrated their first seven montbs of wedded bliss—a diamond-studded pin in the shape of a covered wagon. * Eight-year-old Johnny Sheffield is a hero, partly as a result of his role as Tarzan’s son in a picture made not so long ago. The other day he and Ann Todd, who’s a year younger, were working in a scene for RKO’s “Little Orvie,” when a water main burst, flooding the set knee-deep. Before any of the grown-ups could reach them, John ny swung Ann onto his back and marched her to safety. * John Farrow, Maureen O’Sulli van’s director husband, felt so strongly about getting into the war that he gave up his job and was sworn into the Royal Canadian navy; he’s a lieutenant, and off to the wars. * If Edward G. Robinson, of the movies and radio’s “Big Town” can arrange his sched ules he and Mrs. Robinson will ac company Symphony Maestro Leopold Stokowski on that musical jaunt to South America with a troupe of young American musi cians. Stokowski is taking a complete symphony orchestra with him, composed of talented young American musicians. *— Few people knew how much the Hollywood preview of “Primrose Path” meant to’Joan Carroll. In it she plays Ginger Rogers’ brat sis ter, and the option on her services was written to run not longer than j three days after the picture’s of ficial preview. The contract pro vided that she would be signed to a five-year studio contract if the audience reaction was favorable for her. Probably no showing of a picture ever meant more to a girl. ' She’s done her best, and all she could do was sit and wait—to see if a lot of strangers liked her. When you see it—and it’s swell, don’t miss it —you can imagine how she felt. When the showing was over, and she learned that she’d won that cov eted contract, she wanted to em brace everybody in that audience. * Ken Murray, master of cere monies of CBS’s “Star Theater,” says he turned comedian when he was fired from his first stage job, which was not so very long ago. He tried to crash vaudeville, and a comedian who felt sorry for him told him that his jokes were terrible, and off ex-d to take him along as a “straight” man. On his first two appearances in that capacity Ken got practically all the laughs—and lost his job. Whereupon he became a successful comedian in his own right. Edward G. Robinson Joan Crawford NOVEL BUT GOOD IS THIS ORANGE VEAL ALMOND SALAD (See Recipes Below) ^ Household Neius ■ t// Spring Salads for Spring Tonics Time was when we needed sul phur and molasses, or its equiva lent, as a spring tonic to repair the damages of a winter diet which was quite likely to be lacking in fresh fruit and vegetables. Nowadays spring tonics are unnecessary nui sances, for most of us, because even through the long winter months, a plentiful supply of fruits and vege tables is available. But somehow this season creates an appetite for “something right out of the garden,” and it’s now that we find salads of fresh fruits and vegetables as re freshing as the first spring breeze. Serving a salad is such a simple means of making sure that the day’s quota of fresh vegetables or fruits is included in the diet. Salads look so cool and inviting, and properly prepared they do such a lot toward perking up one’s appe tite. But they must be inviting to look at, cool and crisp, and well seasoned. Wash salad greens carefully, then Soak in cold water to make them very crisp. Remove all brown or wilted spots. Dry carefully on a towel or place cleaned salad greens in a clean sugar sack and shake or twirl vigorously to remove the drops of moisture that cling to the greens. Chill thoroughly. Simple salads, in general, are the smartest—and if they’re to serve their purpose as spring tonics, they’re the best. Salads which are too rich, too elaborately garnished, or decked out with whipped cream, defeat their own purpose, and I have a feeling that it’s one reason most men dislike salads, because too often they’ve had served to them in the name of salad, some ‘queer, sticky concoction, with so many in gredients, so badly mangled, and so much garnish, that there’s scarcely a salad green to be seen or recog nized. Men do like good salads, though, and you’ll find recipes for the kind they enjoy, in my booklet, “Feeding Father.” When you’re planning your spring tonic salads, don’t overlook the raw vegetables—shreds of pared, raw beets, slivers of carrot, and the ten der young leaves of spinach, raw cauliflower, broken into flowerettes —is an excellent addition to a vege table salad, and don’t forget that just a suspicion of garlic in a vege table salad is as important as the dressing! Minced green onion tops or chives will serve as a substitute, if your family doesn’t approve of garlic. Orange Veal Almond Salad. (Serves 6-8) Novel but good is this orange veal almond salad. The orange blends with and brings cut the flavors of the other ingredients. This is an espe cially excellent buffet salad. 2 cups orange half slices 2 cups cooked veal (diced) 2 cups celery (diced) % cup lemon french dressing Lettuce Watercress % cup toasted almonds Blend orange, veal, celery and french dressing. Put in salad bowl, lined with lettuce and watercress. Top with the toasted almonds. Chicken may be substituted for veal. Lemon French Dressing. Vt cup lemon juice y« cup salad oil % teaspoon salt bi teaspoon paprika 1 tablespoon sugar or honey Stir or shake thoroughly before serving. Lemon juice is particular ly good to bring out flavors in a dressing for a meat salad, (makes V4 cup.) Pinwheel Salad. Take halves of grapefruit and re move every other grapefruit seg ment, leaving membrane intact. Spring Menus. Menus, in spring, can be some thing very special—if you’ll take advantage of the grand variety of foods available! In this column next week, Eleanor Howe will give you some of her own favorite suggestions for dressing up spring menus. Prepare cherry-flavored gelatin and fill empty grapefruit sections with gelatin. When gelatin has stiffened, arrange each grapefruit half on bed of lettuce. Place mayonnaise in cen ter of grapefruit and top with chopped green maraschino cherries. ‘Salad Bowl’ Fruit Salad Toss lightly together in salad bowl, one cup watermelon balls, one cup muskmelon balls, one cup honey dew melon balls, one cup seeded red cherries, and one cup diced celery. Add french dressing in sufficient quantity to thoroughly coat all fruits. Have ready a supply of chilled, crisp french endive. Place two or three stalks on side of each individ ual salad plate and serve with salad bowl fruit salad. May Basket Salad. Take the desired number of firm uniform tomatoes, cut out stems and hollow out the center s'ightly. Slice rings of green pepper about Y* inch thick, cut in half and fasten on to mato with tooth picks to form handle of basket. Place hearts of lettuce and rad ish roses (using toothpicks for stems) in the baoicet. Place basket on lettuce leaves. Garnish with mayonnaise. Spicy Summer Salad. 1 cup vinegar % teaspoon whole cloves 1 teaspoon stick cinnamon 1 teaspoon salt 2 cups fresh spinach leaves 1 large carrot 1 stalk celery Boil vinegar, spices and salt to gether for 10 minutes. Strain vine gar and chill. Scrape carrot. Chop all of the fresh vegetables together until they are fairly fine. Dress with the vinegar mixture and serve at once. Gardener’s Salad. (Serves 8-10) 1 sliver of peeled garlic 1 head crisp lettuce (shredded) 4 tomatoes (peeled and cut in wedges) 1 cucumber (peeled and sliced) 3 young onions (sliced thin) 4 radishes (sliced thin) 1 green pepper (cut in rings) 2 carrots (slivered) 6 slices bacon (fried crisp, and crumpled) 1 cup french dressing Be sure the vegetables are washed, wiped dry, and very cold and crisp before starting to mix the salad. Sprin kle the inside of a large salad bowl with salt. With a fork, rub the gar lic well in the salt. Remove gar lic. Put in the shredded lettuce, the vegetables and bacon, then the french dressing. Mix well, so that all the ingredients are completely coated with dressing. Serve imme diately. Would You Like to Please Father? If you want to please father, serve him foods he really likes—simple green salads, beef roast with rich brown gravy, and the plain “family-style” desserts his mother used to make. You’ll find plenty of practical recipes and menus for men in Eleanor Howe’s cook book “Feed ing Father.” Send 10 cents in coin to “Feeding Father,” care Eleanor Howe, 919 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, and get a copy of "Feeding Father” for your kitchen library. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS It is better to steam vegetables. Vegetables in boiling lose 30 to 50 per cent of their mineral Salts. If steamed only 10 per cent is lost. * * * Place a piece of zinc on red-hot coals in the kitchen range or fur nace. The vapor that arises while the zinc melts will remove soot from the chimney. * • • Sprinkle chopped, candied gin ger over thin biscuit dough. Then spread the combination with soft butter. Cut into strips a fourth of an inch wide and two inches long. Bake quickly. Serve hot. • • • Be careful not to fill baking dishes too full. Escalloped foods, rice puddings and fondues need about two inches of rising space. Foods made with baking powder, soda, cream of tartar or egg whites require at least three inches. Pull the Trigger on Constipation, and Pepsin-izeAcidStomachToo When constipation brings on add indi gestion, bloating, dizzy spells, gas, coated tongue, sour taste, and bad breath, your stomach is probably loaded up with cer tain undigested food and your bowels don’t move. So you need both Pepsin to help break up fast that rich undigested food in your stomach, and Laxative Senna to pull the trigger on those lazy bowels. So be sure your laxative also contains Pepsin. Take Dr. Caldwell’s Laxative, because its Syrup Pepsin helps you gain that won-* derful stomach comfort, while the laxative Senna moves your bowels. Tests prove the power of Pepsin to dissolve those lumps of undigested protein food which may linger in your stomach, to cause belching; gastric atidity and nausea. This is how pepsin- izing your stomach helps relieve it of such distress. At the same time this medicine wakes up lacy nerves and muscles in your bowels to relieve your constipation. So see how much better you feel by taking the laxative that also puts ’Pepsin to work on that stomach discomfort, too. Even fin icky children love to taste this pleasant family laxative. Buy Dr. Caldwell's Lax ative-Senna with Syrup Pepsin at your druggist today! Fully Educated A man is not educated until he has the ability to summon, in an emergency, his mental powers in vigorous exercise to effect its pro posed object.—Webster. 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