half past three
It was known that he had acquaintance with the great and famous of the musical world . The East End set fawned upon him , and his studio suppers were the exclusive social events in Winnebago . Schabelitz was to play in the evening . At half past three that afternoon there entered Brandeis ' Bazaar a white-faced , wide-eyed boy who was Theodore Brandeis ; a plump , voluble , and excited person who was Emil Bauer ; and a short , stocky man who looked rather like a foreign-born artisan -- plumber or steam-fitter -- in his Sunday clothes . This was Levine Schabelitz . Molly Brandeis was selling a wash boiler to a fussy housewife who , in her anxiety to assure herself of the flawlessness of her purchase , had done everything but climb inside it . It had early been instilled in the minds of Mrs. Brandeis 's children that she was never to be approached when busy with a customer .