Jack Woltz was a tall, powerfully built man with a heavy paunch almost

Concealed by his perfectly tailored suit. Hagen knew his history. At ten years of

Age Woltz had hustled empty beer kegs and pushcarts on the East Side. At twenty

He helped his father sweat garment workers. At thirty he had left New York and

Moved West, invested in the nickelodeon and pioneered motion pictures. At forty-

Eight he had been the most powerful movie magnate in Hollywood, still rough-

Spoken, rapaciously amorous, a raging wolf ravaging helpless flocks of young

Starlets. At fifty he transformed himself. He took speech lessons, learned how to

Dress from an English valet and how to behave socially from an English butler.

When his first wife died he married a world-famous and beautiful actress who

didn't like acting. Now at the age of sixty he collected old master paintings, was a

member of the President's Advisory Committee, and had set up a multimillion-

Dollar foundation in his name to promote art in motion pictures. His daughter had

Married an English lord, his son an Italian princess.

His latest passion, as reported dutifully by every movie columnist in America,

Was his own racing stables on which he had spent ten million dollars in the past

Year. He had made headlines by purchasing the famed English racing horse