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...began in 1948 with the parent corporation's National Broadcasting Co. subsidiary. He became head of NBC in 1955 and was elevated to the presidency of RCA in 1966. Shortly after, he started RCA on an ambitious diversification effort. His main acquisitions: Hertz Corp., Random House Inc., Cushman & Wakefield Inc. (real estate) and Coronet Industries Inc. (a carpet and furniture manufacturer). A majority of RCA's board backed Sarnoff throughout his acquisition program, and even last week directors did not criticize his management-but they thought his pay was high enough...
Alfred the Great is the first part of a trilogy by Horowitz entitled The Wakefield Plays. The second and third parts, Our Father's Failing and Alfred Dies, will be staged at the Trinity Square Theater in Providence, Rhode Island, some time before 1977. What Boston audiences are now seeing at the Wilbur Theatre is the extremely promising first act of a still to be completed three act drama. Alfred the Great, when seen by itself, ultimately fails as an independent work of art, but in part one Horowitz gives indications of the originality and strength of his dramatic imagination...
UNFORTUNATELY, Eugene Lee's set does not provide a physical context for the actors that can compare with the highly-nuanced emotional context they create. The play is set in Wakefield, Massachusetts, a small town north of Boston. All action takes place in the home of Margaret and Will. Lee captures the bleak and barren quality of their marriage in the dingy walls and sparse furnishing of his interior but somehow he fails to convey the sense that this is a distinctly American environment. Instead, the setting seems more suited to Pinter's Birthday Party than a play...
Alfred the Great remains only a beginning--we need to know the middle and the end of the Wakefield Cycle before we can really judge whether Horowitz has made a dramatic statement of enduring value. Part one ends just as the last layers of deceit and delusion are being torn away. The process of self discovery for both the characters and the audience has just begun--a process that will hopefully be soon completed...
Alfred the Great, the first part of Israel Horovitz's "Wakefield Trilogy," has nothing to do with kings or Yorkshire. It's a seriocomic Pinteresque melodrama involving two spouse-swapping couples in our own Wakefield just north of Boston, where the playwright was born. It's a handsomely acted and fascinating fable of four frustrated and funny freaks. You may believe that murder, adultery, impotence and sadism can't be amusing, but you're wrong; and you'll also have something to mull over for days afterward. But you've got only until Aug. 17, when the troupe follows...