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BEST WESTERN
The Lone Ranger
by Fran Striker
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Every July, Detroit’s Department of Recreation gives a school field day on Belle Isle. This year, 1933, it promised the children that the Lone Ranger would appear in person. He did, masked, on a white horse. The police were prepared to handle a crowd of 20,000 — the most that Belle Isle could hold comfortably; 70,000 came. The children broke through the lines and knocked one another down, struggling to get near their hero. The situation became so dangerous that the police had to appeal to the Ranger himself to restore order. He never dared make another public appearance.
So reads a paragraph in an article by J. Bryan III, in the issue of October 14, 1939, of the Saturday Evening Post.
This famous program is heard three times a week over 140 stations. Half of these stations carry the “live” show, and half broadcast it by transcription. It is radio’s most vital wood pulp and is heard not only throughout America and Canada, but in Hawaii and New Zealand. The program originates from the studio stage of Station WXYZ in Detroit.
The Lone Ranger is an American institution, hero of small boys and old women alike. The scripts are wonderfully horrible and horribly wonderful at the same time, and the cry “Hi-Yo, Silver” has about the same effect on hungry American multitudes as “Dinner is served”! Millions of people leave off what they are doing and do something else. The Lone Ranger is radio’s busiest and most powerful crusader for the better life. He is a Lochinvar and Robin Hood, and he has just enough William S. Hart about him to be thoroughly muscular. He is a rage, a phase, a land¬ mark, very definitely a radio entity who for the sake of posterity and the contemporary record deserves the next few pages. Herewith is script No. 1000, written by Fran Striker and performed over the Mutual Broadcasting System on June 30, 1939.
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