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Rear Admiral Arthur Byron ("Cookie") Cook, 59, commands an unannounced number of shore-based aircraft which patrol with the Fleet, at least two carriers (Ranger, the recently added Wasp), and perhaps a third (the Saratoga). Like his chief, he switched to air duty after more than 20 years in surface vessels, had a tour as Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics...
Pearl White and Ruth Roland are dead. But on the books of three U.S. cinemakers (Republic, Universal, Columbia) To Be Continued is still doing important business. Any one of these companies' dozen yearly serials (trade name: cliff hangers) is likely to gross a million dollars. The Lone Ranger, made three years ago for $325,000, grossed over $1,250,000-a better return than most feature pictures bring...
...make sure their side was well presented, the publishers agreed to raise $200,000 by means of a levy on their radio earnings. Only dissident to the committee's program was Robert McCormick's WGN which, like Robert McCormick's Chicago Tribune, is an industrial lone ranger...
...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...