TV Guide (May 14, 1954)

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Radio's Barbours: J. Anthony Smythe, Minetta Ellen, family heads since '32. another); one, an in-law, has been separated from his wife (Teddy, Paul’s adopted daughter) and pretty much forgotten. “Trying to weave 25 people into a daily quarter-hour live TV show,” Morse comments, “is just too much. Whether or not we can slowly re¬ build the family, I just don’t know.” It may be that he will have to. There are strong indications that the radio show will lose its sponsor at the end of the current season—and un¬ less someone else picks it up, the Barbour family will be left to the tender mercies of a new generation of television viewers. To the older fans, and there are literally millions of them, it will be like going back to re¬ read “The Rover Boys” or “The Bobbsey Twins”—a spirit that can never quite be recaptured. The Barbour Radio Family Henry Barbour (born 1875) and Fanny Martin (born 1878) were wed in 1896. Two generations of their de¬ scendants are shown below. -Poul-b. 1897 Elaine Hunter Hazel-b. 1900 1. Wm. Herbert 2. Dan Murray Claudia-b. 1912 I_ 1. John Roberts I 2. Capt. N. Lacey Clifford-b. 1912 1. Ann Waite 2. Irene Franklin 3. Mary McLeod y h h Teddy Lawton (adopted) Martin Henry Wm. Barbour Margaret Joan Penelope Nicky, Jr. J.D. (Andy) -Jack-b. 1917 Betty Carter Elizabeth Ann Janie Mary Lou Abigail, Deborah & Constance (triplets) The fourth generation lists one child so far, son of Joan. For television, the family was started again from the beginning and has only gone to the second generation and the characters all have been made younger.