Free Lecture Scheduled Featuring Daughter of TV's 'Lone Ranger'

From an edited press release:

Dawn Moore, daughter of Film/TV’s original Lone Ranger, will be giving a free lecture Wednesday at Warner Bros. Tour Center Theatre in Burbank. Clayton Moore would have been 100 this year.

From 1933 to 1954, the voices of several Lone Rangers, most notably the deep, steady cadences of Brace Beemer, chased bad guys across the radio dial three nights each week. Republic Pictures began producing Lone Ranger serials, short films in episode format, in 1937.

The leap to television in 1949 was altogether natural for a radio and film success story. The new program needed a new Lone Ranger to suit the new medium.

Lone Ranger creator George Washington Trendle found his man in Clayton Moore, born Jack Carlton Moore 35 years earlier on Chicago’s south side. Moore had worked as a trapeze artist at Chicago’s 1933-34 World’s Fair.

The televised series also needed a new Tonto. The radio versions of Tonto had featured actors who were decidedly non-Indian, and both the radio and film roles had been cast as a wise elder.

Striker, still the chief scriptwriter, argued for an authentic, youthful Native American. One who fit the bill was Harold J. Smith, then 30, Smith was a full-blooded Mohawk from the Six Nations Reservation near Brantford, Ontario.

The lecture starts at 6:30 p.m. and seating is limited. Call 877-4WB-TOUR for tickets.