Seems I have a photograph in my archives that remains a mystery. Correctly dated 1936, cowboy actor George O'Brien posed outside the Strand Theatre, in East Los Angeles, California. The actor was playing cowboy heroes on the big screen so it seems unlikely he played the role of the famed radio masked man on stage, but rather one of his movies was being screened at the theater that week. But the mystery resolves about who played the role of The Lone Ranger on stage. Was this a performance? Was this a brief stage play?
It is a known fact that had producer George W. Trendle, back in Detroit, learned about this, he would have thrown a fit. He was adamant about having anyone masquerade as The Lone Ranger on stage without his permission. The Lone Ranger on stage was more than likely unauthorized and slipped through the cracks without being observed by Trendle.
So... who was that masked man?
