The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-10
In New York
BY GEORGE ROSS

New York, June 10 - Although Broadway probably spawns more success stories per ai1nurn than any other thoroughfare in the land, each new tale has 6 different twist.
 The gal who hands you your cha peau in some midtown hot spot may be a headliner ct the same club when you return two weeks later. Or the good looking led who usherS you to a seat at one of the towns Temples of the Cinema may bow at you from the screen of the same theater the next time.
 It was only 8 couple of weeks after Ethel Norman deserted her typewriter for torch song that she became Q star. And @ few months after an alert screen scout spotted Fred MacCurray's infectious grin amongst the members of the or- cheStra at the Hollywood Regtau- rant, he was cavorting before the west coast cameras with none other than Claudette Colbert.
 Last season one of Broadway'g producers. Albert Bein, whose "Let Freedom Ring" had healthy run, hired Q dark-eyed, vivacious young lady to guard the patrols of his sanctuY1 sanctoruri1. The girls name was Eva Langbord and al. though she pleaded with Bein to give her 8 part in the show and take her away from her drab re- ceptionist routine, Bein refused.
 I'm Q darn good actor" she would repeat twice daily. "Why don't you give me Q chance?" Boast Made Good
 One day Burgess Meredith - the theater's current number one lead- ing man, and ManhattAn's 1e30 matinee idol, walked into Bein'e office. Miss Langhord, whose acc qlaintance with MT. Meredith had been confined to a rather limited view from row M in the second bale cony, waxed ecstatic about the young mans histrionic ability.
 And" she added, some day will play opposite that chap"
 Everyone laughed. Even Bein gave her the afternoon of, to 60 sit in the park and relax.
 A few months later one of those fiukes of fate landed Eva Lang bord Q job as the ui1derstudy to the raven dressed Margo in Max well Anderson's stirring play "Winterset". She wasn't exactly be- hind the footiights yet, but she waa . sight nearer her goal than being 6 mere, "No, nothing today" gel ili Q Broadway producers ofiice.
 This week "Winsterset" returned to Broadway without Margo in the cast. The young lady who plays the feminine lead opposite Burgess Meredith is-Eva Langbordl
 
 Boxing Surfdom
 Manhattan Miscellany: Mike Ja- cobs, whose Twentieth Century Sporting Club ofilce on West Forty ninth street is the current hangout for the followers of fistlapia, has hung out an awning. It reads: "Ja- cob's Beach,.
 Carl Robinson, who has written more than 300 salt water ballads including that sea-going classic "Barnacle Bill, the Eaiior", had never set his eyes on the ocean llHl. til his recent visit to New York.
 Libby Holman will bob up again this summer in q straight dramatic part at one of the warm-weathel show-shops.
 Twentieth Century-Eox has just purchased Dorothea Brande's besl seller ''Wake Up and Livei" fol $22, 2,50O. All they want is the titlel The book is non-i1cticn.
 There's e bull market ct the mo. ment on Broadway for chorus gals what with George White scanning beauties for the Chicago and Lon. don productions of "Scandals' ant the 6huberts looking at lassieg from nine to five for the new edition oi 'srhe Zieggeld Follles."
 Most n0nchaIant gesture by playwright in 6 decade: George 6 Kaufman has named both the the ater and opening date of the noy play he and Moss Hart are writinl | for next season, and yet neither o them has set word down on paper aea aa... s.s 4aras. r.an omausams