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...Preludes), or to The Green Hornet (Rimski-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee). The Hornet and the Ranger were creations of Fran Striker and George W. Trendle, who furnished them both with similar appurtenances. The Masked Rider of the Plains had a faithful Indian companion, Tonto, and a 200-carpower horse, Silver. The Green Hornet had a faithful Japanese valet, Kato (during World War II Kato abruptly became a Filipino), and a supercar with the name of a horse, Black Beauty. The supernatural thrived in a Poe-like atmosphere on Inner Sanctum and Lights Out -programs that featured echo...
...would be a mistake to consider all of these programs classics - even of nostalgia. Radio drama was never with out deep and regrettable flaws. Homilies passed for wisdom; exposition could be ungainly. Caricature and stereotypes were the order of the broadcasting day, from Tonto's "Kemo Sabe" to the caricature of black servants on almost every soap opera. Still, radio drama, like its heroes, tended to be greater than any of its faults. If it was naive, it was no more than the reflection of a simpler epoch. If it was repetitious, it allowed each listener to color...
...ways, the band, which played for an audience of the Guru's Boston devotees Wednesday night, personifies the movement which has built around the 15-year old Indian boy. Blue Aquarius is slick and professional. Their leader, portly Bhole Ji, struts in front of them like a cross between Tonto and Lawrence Welk...
...spoken. In a well-planned ambush at Hollywood Gulch he tomahawked Oscar, but it was accomplished in a most un-Indian-like maneuver. While Great Chief Brando [April 9] skulked in the surrounding mesquite, he dispatched a young squaw to the paleface council, carrying the war lance. Tonto would have been more courageous than that...
Although the American Indian has been the subject of insatiable curiosity and unrelieved romanticization by whites, almost 500 years of losing battles have made him nearly invisible. But recently the Indian has begun to emerge from behind the misty stereotype of smoke signals, tepees and Tonto. A chorus of angry voices has been making many demands: they call for everything from control of reservation lands and mineral rights to restoration of ancient tribal customs and the power to specify curriculums in Indian grade schools. The move to self-determination is characterized in the new cry: "Indian identification of Indian problems...