The Commercial Appeal du lieu suivant : Memphis, Tennessee • 85

SECTION VI 15 THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL MEMPHIS SUNDAY MORNING APRIL 22 1951 A Southerner In New York Dixie Accents Dominate Staff i Of Philco Television Playhouse By RHEA TALLEY NEW YORK April Confederacy of the National Broad canting ia what they call the production ataff of the Philco Televiaion Playhouse and the Chevrolet Tele-Theatre In fact when I dropped by the offiee In Radio City a strange man clapped hie hand to hie brow and cried deaperately God! Another Southern Frederick Coe who produced these two shows and is NBC's manager of new program development was born in Alligator Miss of parents who originally lived in Memphis and was raised In Nashville where he got a start in drama i later was time to tackls New York He and Alice cams up in 1944 parliamentarian and General Federal Welfare chairman Mm Dtxla Wallaea 30th District president Mrs Paul Gray Junior Club ex-tension director Mrs Edward Toulon state Scrapbook chairman! jMrs Logan Morgan state chair 'man of Fine Arts end Mm Arch CL Mr Loren From Whitehaven: Mr Hunt Harrison Mrs Puke Mii Anna Lee McCorltle Mrs Anderson Mm Starnes Mrs Babb Mrs Felix Pavia Mrs Harry Pickman and Mrs i Gilbert From Ca pleville: Mm George Dillon end Mrs JonaVin: from Collierville: Mrs Ray Martin Mrs Paul Piper and Mm Omil Carrington are general ehalrasn for tho convention Many From Hone To Attend Among tho convention social vents will he the Junior Breakfast at 7:90 Wednesday morning with Mrs Carl Heyer of Memphis offering the Invocation luncheon Wednesday noon and the President's reception Wednesday evening all at the Patten luncheon Thursday at the Read House and the convention banquet Thursday evening In the Patten Ballroom Members of the demos Woman's Club will entertain visiting delegates at ten Thursday afternoon In the delegation attending from Memphis will be: Mrs Carl Heyer second vice president and dirertor of Junior Clubs Mrs Fowler state extension librarian of the University of Tennessee Knoxville One of the speakers also will he Rosa Schlrm German-horn resident of Laningen In the province of Bavaria who Is an exchange student at Memphis State College Sho has been Invited to discuss her experiences here Mrs William Fowler of Memphis past president of the Tennessee Federation and now National Child Welfare chairman of the General Federation of Women's Clubs will conduct a workshop Thursday morning The three-day convention will he presided over by Mrs Hugh Knox of Nashville president who also will conduct a preliminary meeting of the state Executive Board Tuesday Members of the board will be entertained at dinner at 6:30 Tuesday evening at the Hotel Patten Mrs Walter Stamper and Mrs Ran Killingsworth of Chattanooga which ran an hour and 40 minutes with no deadline time turned the tide In Fred's favor From then on he was directing and producing dramatic shows for the Theatre Guild Ford Kraft and Mastorpleeo Playhouse For the past two and a half years he has been producer occasionally directing for the Philco Playhouse A half hour dramatic showFirst Person ia which Fred used his camera as the murderer and asked the audience to identify themselves with the camera is considered one of the finest television shows to date and certainly one of the most significant as It inspired Robert Montgomery with a camera technique for a movie This Fall Fred may achieve the ambition he started out with of directing a legitimate show The play in mind is a dramatization of a Henry James story by Hays who did the adaptation Fred directed on the Philco Playhouse last year Mrs Wallace Will Report Memphians Will Attend Conventicjn In Chattanooga Mrs Dixie Wallace 10th District president will lead the American Creed opening the annual state convention of the Tennessee Federation of Women's Clubs Wednesday morning In Chattanooga She also will present the district report Workshop Is Scheduled Among outstanding speakers on the convention program will be Senator Estes Kefauver whose subject will bs My and Dr David Harkness packing hats He explained to the boss that he was In college and wanted to work part time Even now he could pass for a college student In the middle of this difficult era the first young Coe John who is now 5 and has an 2-month-old sister named Lawsance made hia appearance Sadly tne Coes decided they had better return to the South and comparative security Fred spent train fare going to Yale and bidding his professors a sad goodbye The next day the National Broadcasting Company with whom he had had an Interview months previously telephoned Fred started work the following Monday as production assistant at NBC That was in 1945 when the entire television production staff consisted of five people and they were on the air about an hour a week As the television grew bigger Fred was given shows to direct First was a children's quiz show Bedells His First which Fred adapted himself from the novel was hisi first dramatic show He worked three days and nights straight doing the writing while Alice typed Fnur days later he had cast directed and produced the show Helen of Memphis Erratle Yean The first years in New York were very erratic Fred managed a show calle'd Day Will but not for long because the show closed early He got a chance to direct but the play closed in Pittsburgh before reaching Broadway In fact there were times when job in an advertising agency came in handy for the Coe family Fred started writing plays but seem to make it Because he stand not work-ing he got a job in a hat factory IRIS AMO BOYS STRUT flOOR BY POPULAR RIQUfSr OUR FAMOUS SAILOR DRfSS SIZES 2 TO 6V THE CURTAIN SHOP- of Memphis I Madison Arc (Near Second St) Frank's add a TOUCH of SPRING LOVELINESS TO gift flattering YwH om Chignons COTTON rOPLIN GUARANTEED WASHABLE Say TSCHIN-YONN ioundi Korean but ii French took him to Columbia Delbert Mann one of his directors is a Nashville man who literally 1 -lowed in Fred's foot steps in Nashville and Columbia Delbert is married to the former Ann Carolyn Gillespie who was on the ataff of the Nashville Banner i Also in that i Miss Talley department is: Nellie Rahn of Memphis who came to New York about the time I did in J94B and was introduced to me by a friend with whom she was coaching for the theater Nellie went to work with NBC's music department and ia now on the staff of the television shows Add to that the actors from the South whom Fred and Delbert occasionally hire for their shows and you can see why the gentleman in the office reacted so violently to another Southerner Mr Coe is realy a Southern gift to television since at 34 he rates as one of the top producers in the business i Fred's father was Coe i a prominent Memphis lawyer Hisj mother the former Annette Har-I rell was a nurse at the old Mem-' phis City Hospital Hia mother's nursing career was responsible for Fred's attending school first in Buckhorn Ky where his mother had gone as a Presbyterian mission nurse in the really remote mountain rountry First Play At 12 When Mrs Coe went to Nashville to study puhlie nursing at Peabody Fred settled down to making Nashville drama-conscious At the age of 12 he wrote his first class play his first to he produced that is Ha showed hia true producing tendencies by wanting to act write direct: in fact do everything Fred went to Peabody and in his first history class found himself across the aisle from Alice Griggs now Mrs Fred Coe He communicated his 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