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On !b Man's Tu>o Families The Barbours Turn Clock Back To Grow Up All Over Again C ARLTON E. MORSE, who bears a remarkable resemblance to an earnest rabbit in search of a carrot, has been living off a rather lush car¬ rot these past 22 years. He is the man who single-handedly created an American institution known as One Man’s Family. This serial, one of the oldest and best loved of all radio shows, is unique in many ways. It is the ac¬ cepted dean of soap operas. Father Barbour, the “one man” of the title, has been played by the same radio actor, J. Anthony Smythe, since the show’s inception. Mother Barbour has always been Minetta Ellen, who, at 79, would like to retire from the show some day and go back to school. And it is the only show in existence which has calmly turned back the clock on itself and started all over again. Family Tree Branched Out The original family of 1932 in¬ cluded Father and Mother Barbour and the five children: Paul, Hazel, Claudia, Clifford and Jack. In the original story, Paul was born in 1897, Jack in 1917. The rest fell in between. Back in 1949 Morse brought the family intact to TV but found, what with marriages and births, it was too cumbersome. The TV audi¬ ence had difficulty in picking up all the complicated family threads, and Morse himself had difficulty adjust¬ ing the family to the new medium. He abandoned the project two years later and contented himself with brooding about it until early this year. The solution, it suddenly struck Morse, was to start all over again as though nobody had ever heard of One Man’s Family. He just moved the whole thing up 22 years, with the original family of seven and the same general storyline used on the radio version. This, as it were, is the sec¬ ond show. It makes for a few complications, which bother Morse not the slightest. Paul, for instance, is now 57 in the radio version and has a daughter of his own. In the TV version he is