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...multilingual Dutchman, who spent part of his youth as an anti-Nazi resistance fighter, has just taken over the top job in a globe-spanning industrial empire that employs 165,000 people, owns and charters a fleet of 200 ships and lately has encountered some rough weather. Gerrit ("Gerry") Wagner became chairman of the seven-man committee that runs Royal Dutch/Shell, which is the world's biggest industrial enterprise outside the U.S. as well as the second largest oil complex (after Jersey Standard). The son of a Dutch businessman, Wagner joined Royal Dutch in 1946 and spent 17 years...
...antipollution laws and inflating demands from producing countries for more money. Partly because of an economic slowdown in Europe and a leveling in earnings of its U.S. subsidiary, Shell Oil, the Royal Dutch group saw profits fall 35% in this year's first quarter, to $ 192 million. Predicts Wagner: "On the whole, 1972 is not going to be a very attractive year...
...Wagner has not outlined his strategy for reversing the trend in the $13-billion-a-year group. Though a strong advocate of the profit motive, he believes that a company has a larger obligation to society. While others in his industry have criticized controls on pollution, for example, Wagner has all but embraced them. As he told TIME European Economic Correspondent Roger Beard-wood: "We are all part of the world -the employees, the stockholders, my family, me and the most radical students. We must reduce pollution, but we cannot do it overnight. Some developed countries are reluctant to industrialize...
Still, Kahn deserves high marks for trying to unify the two works. Both productions use the same basic raked stage, designed by Robin Wagner, and the Roman scenes in Antony enjoy the same upstage set as many of those in Caesar. Jane Greenwood's costumes for the Romans in both plays are the same or similar. And the three important characters who are present in both plays--Antony, Octavious, and Lepidus--have the virtue of being portrayed by the same actors...
...Robin Wagner has well captured the contrast between stern Rome and luxuriant Egypt in his sets; especially striking are the warm golds that adorn Alexandria, and the 15-foot-high double columns that support Cleopatra's monument--all skillfully lit by Marc Weiss. John Morris's music is markedly better than what he provided for Caesar, though it is still a bit obvious in its quasi-exotic effects...