three o'clock in
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He insisted that only exceptionally beautiful women be invited , for he did not care to look at the homely ones , and curiously he found dozens , who were not only extremely beautiful , but singers , dancers , composers , authors , actors and playwrights in the bargain . Nearly all of them were brilliant conversationalists and they helped to entertain themselves -- made their own entertainment , in fact . His table very frequently was a glittering spectacle . One of his `` Stunts '' as he called it was to bundle fifteen or twenty people into three or four automobiles after they had lingered in his rooms until three o'clock in the morning and motor out to some out-of-town inn for breakfast and `` to see the sun rise . '' A small matter like a bill for $ 75.00 for auto hire or thirty-five dollars for a crowd for breakfast did not trouble him . It was a glorious sensation to draw forth his purse and remove four or five or six yellow backed ten dollar bills , knowing that it made little real difference . More money was coming to him from the same source .