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The
day
before
,
Hagen
had
called
the
most
powerful
man
in
the
movie
labor
unions
,
a
man
named
Billy
Goff
.
Acting
on
instructions
from
Don
Corleone
,
Hagen
had
told
Goff
to
arrange
an
appointment
on
the
next
day
for
Hagen
to
call
on
Jack
Woltz
,
that
he
should
hint
to
Woltz
that
if
Hagen
was
not
made
happy
by
the
results
of
the
interview
,
there
could
be
a
labor
strike
at
the
movie
studio
.
An
hour
later
Hagen
received
a
call
from
Goff
.
The
appointment
would
be
at
ten
A.
M.
Woltz
had
gotten
the
message
about
the
possible
labor
strike
but
had
n't
seemed
too
impressed
,
Goff
said
.
He
added
,
"
If
it
really
comes
down
to
that
,
I
got
ta
talk
to
the
Don
myself
.
"
"
If
it
comes
to
that
he
'll
talk
to
you
,
"
Hagen
said
.
By
saying
this
he
avoided
making
any
promises
.
He
was
not
surprised
that
Goff
was
so
agreeable
to
the
Don
's
wishes
.
The
family
empire
,
technically
,
did
not
extend
beyond
the
New
York
area
but
Don
Corleone
had
first
become
strong
by
helping
labor
leaders
.
Many
of
them
still
owed
him
debts
of
friendship
.
But
the
ten
A.
M.
appointment
was
a
bad
sign
.
It
meant
that
he
would
be
first
on
the
appointment
list
,
that
he
would
not
be
invited
to
lunch
.
It
meant
that
Woltz
held
him
in
small
worth
.
Goff
had
not
been
threatening
enough
,
probably
because
Woltz
had
him
on
his
graft
payroll
.
And
sometimes
the
Don
's
success
in
keeping
himself
out
of
the
limelight
worked
to
the
disadvantage
of
the
family
business
,
in
that
his
name
did
not
mean
anything
to
outside
circles
.
His
analysis
proved
correct
.
Woltz
kept
him
waiting
for
a
half
hour
past
the
appointed
time
.
Hagen
did
n't
mind
.
The
reception
room
was
very
plush
,
very
comfortable
,
and
on
a
plum-colored
couch
opposite
him
sat
the
most
beautiful
child
Hagen
had
ever
seen
.
She
was
no
more
than
eleven
or
twelve
,
dressed
in
a
very
expensive
but
simple
way
as
a
grown
woman
.
She
had
incredibly
golden
hair
,
huge
deep
sea-blue
eyes
and
a
fresh
raspberry-red
mouth
.
She
was
guarded
by
a
woman
obviously
her
mother
,
who
tried
to
stare
Hagen
down
with
a
cold
arrogance
that
made
him
want
to
punch
her
in
the
face
.
The
angel
child
and
the
dragon
mother
,
Hagen
thought
,
returning
the
mother
's
cold
stare
.
Finally
an
exquisitely
dressed
but
stout
middle-aged
woman
came
to
lead
him
through
a
string
of
offices
to
the
office-apartment
of
the
movie
producer
.
Hagen
was
impressed
by
the
beauty
of
the
offices
and
the
people
working
in
them
.
He
smiled
.
They
were
all
shrewdies
,
trying
to
get
their
foot
in
the
movie
door
by
taking
office
jobs
;
and
most
of
them
would
work
in
these
offices
for
the
rest
of
their
lives
or
until
they
accepted
defeat
and
returned
to
their
home
towns
.
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
did
n'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
Khartoum
for
the
incredible
price
of
six
hundred
thousand
dollars
and
then
announcing
that
the
undefeated
racer
would
be
retired
and
put
to
stud
exclusively
for
the
Woltz
stables
.
