Five Thousand an Hour: How Johnny Gamble Won the Heiress is a story of games and gambling by George Randolph Chester. Chester was an American writer and screenwriter, film editor, and director. Excerpt:" Into the box where Miss Constance Joy-slender and dark and tall-entertained her bevy of admirers, there swished a violently-gowned young woman of buxom build and hearty manner, attended by a young man who wore a hundred-dollar suit and smiled feebly whenever he caught an eye."