Word: graser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real life, the Ranger was Earle Graser, who liked to garden and play badminton and who didn't learn to ride a horse until a couple of years ago. He was 32 years old, a graduate of Wayne (Mich.) University who studied law two years, then took up acting in tent shows throughout Michigan. He got a job with Detroit's station WXYZ, which was losing money in those days...
...radio needed was a William S. Hart of the air. Scripter Francis Striker, who had been grinding out a series called Warner Lester, Manhunter, concocted a story about a mysterious and gallant cowboy who fought against injustice of all sorts on the late 19th-Century western frontier. Earle Graser, one of half a dozen actors to be tried out, had just the right voice for the part-strong, romantic and confidence-winning...
...Ranger galloped into the films, comic strips and novelty business. Mr. Striker got $10,000 a year, Mr. Graser...
...select Actor Graser's successor was no difficult business. On hand in WXYZ studios was Brace Beemer, who played the Ranger in the program's early days, was transformed into a narrator when Earle Graser took over. He will be the new Ranger...
Well fitted for his part is Brace Beemer. Thirty-eight, Beemer stands 6 ft. 3, weighs 200 lb., is an excellent horseman, a superb shot, a handy man with a 35-ft. bull whip. His voice is so much like Graser's that his substitute version of the Ranger's famed cry to his horse: "Hi-Yo, Silver, away!" will scarcely be noticed by the nation's moppets. All along, he has represented the Ranger in his few public appearances. In 1933 when Beemer as the Lone Ranger made a personal appearance at Detroit's Belle...