The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-28
In New York
BY PAUL HARRISON

New York-People passing one of those vacant lot parking stn- tions just off the mid town business district early Christmas morning were astonished to see a hatless man in a bedraggled oyercoat wield- ing sledge on the front of a sEiny new car.
 He worked without enthusiams: more like an executioner going about a distasteful but necessary task. Bang!--would go the sledge on an unoffending fender, and the fellow would pause to survey tho resulting damage. Crashi--would go the hammer on to a polished headlight. Next it would slam into the trim lines of a slanting radia- tor. The man himself seemed to vince with each blow in part sympathetically, perhaps, because his own face showed that of re- gently had suffered beating.
 A police man trotted across the lot, yelling: Hey, is that your car?" The man said yes, it was his car, and rested from his labors to pro- duce credentials. He and the cop talked a few minutes, then he got into the battered automobile and 0IONC dhdyS ahu LllC OiiSOIS turned to his beat. One of the by islanders made inquiry.
 Said the cop: "The poor fella had gone out with the boys in his office the afternoon be fore Christ mas, and the first thing they knew it was evening and they were gOin' around to night clubs. This gem tleman gets into a little argument somewhere and gets kinda marked up, and his clothes torn. He don't dare go home like that on Christi mas eve, so he stays in a hotel and telephones his wife that he's had an accident with the car. We'll what you just seen was the ac- cident."
 Hollywood Fable
 One of those big -pay-and-no- work stories which Braodwaymen love to bring back from Hollywood concerns writer on contract for q weekly check of $750. But scarcely had the agreement been signed than an executive of the film con cern decided he didn't want the authors services.
 For several weeks he wasn't giv- en anything to do, but neglect didn't fatally injure his pride. Finally, in the hope that he'd voluntarily distasteful and trifiing tasks to perform. He performed them, grit ting his teeth the while.
 One day he was assigned 10 guide party of visitors around the studio In the group rerc a couple of New York stock holders in the film company. The writer started out by pointing to a pretentious new building and an. nouhcing that that was storehouse No for wasted films. The tour ists were shocked. Three buildings full of spoiled pictures?
 < Sure, lied the guide. Untold millions of dollars worth of pro- auctions turned out badly and everything on a scale as vast as that. "For example," he continued. I'm the worlds highest paid guide. They give me $750 a week just for showing people around" Victory Nailed Down
 A little contract bridge anecdote from India, delivered by Col Theo- dore Roosevelt in a reminiscent mood: He dined one day, did the colonel, with . potentate of the interior whose name, translated, means 'The Nail on Which Hangs the Universe. It happens that this ruler not only loved to gamble, but loves to gamble on bridge.
 But naturally "The Nail on Which Hangs the Universe" must be a pretty omnipotent nail, so it is unthinkable that he ever should lose. And so, to make sure that all the royal amenities are observed, three noble kibitzers are assigned to stand behind the other players, peer into their hands, and report to the master on. just how to bid his cards.
 Colonel Roosevelt and a Dutch resident and 8 British resident merchant had a rather bad time of it before their host had won his eighth and last successive rub Der. The Hollander is the one who really deserves sympathy, however. He lives near the palace and once q week receives royal commend