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...years ago (it is now a regular television feature). Striker, who sold the rights to Lone Ranger, continued to write the scripts. He turned out some 3,000 half-hour shows, all of which glorified justice, cowboy good conduct and loyalty to the Lone Ranger's Indian friend Tonto. Faithfully tuned in by uncounted millions of schoolchildren for 29 years, the ringing prologue ("From out of the West come the thundering hoofbeats . . .'') and the Lone Ranger's cry of "Hi Ho, Silver, Away!" to his great white stallion, became part of the American idiom...
...silent because listening to the radio, value the sociological and cultural eminence of such personalities as Captain Midnight, Jack Armstrong and Hop Harrigan. We remember Captain Midnight's Decoder Badges, Sky King's Secret Signal Mirrors, and Secret Compartment Rings. We remember that voice: With his faithful Indian companion Tonto, the daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains brought law and order to the early Western United States. Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of Justice. Return with us to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering...
...beady-eyed fascination, Roy Rogers (with the help of Dale and Trigger) got the drop on some slow-witted fur thieves; Hopalong Cassidy (with help from his younger brother ) corralled a batch of badmen who had holed up in a gold mine; the Lone Ranger (with help from Tonto and his horse Silver) outwitted a pseudo-Englishman and won an inheritance which -naturally -he promptly donated to a worthy cause...
...cowboys, spread out in family groups to graze. Sheep followed each other, were bunched by the herder, tramped the range into dust, with the result that the next rain washed off the topsoil instead of bringing up fresh grass. Cattlemen had tried violence, but after a rancher in the Tonto Basin was hanged for killing two sheepherders, they gave it up. They tried cunning, stampeded wild horses into herds of sheep to discourage sheep-grazing on that part of the range. But the sheep kept coming. Coolidge says the legend of quick-shooting cowboys is pure myth: because they believed...
...interested in acting and I like the climate of California. I found acting much more pleasant than law." After being considered as a leading man for Mae West in She Done Him Wrong, he was given minor parts in The Woman Accused, Murders in the Zoo, Under the Tonto Rim and Little Women. Count Alexei in The Scarlet Empress is his first important role...