Salesman in Short Pants (aka-Child Labor Racket): The Green Hornet (March 11, 1940)

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“Salesman in Short Pants (aka-Child Labor Racket)” is an episode of The Green Hornet, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 11, 1940. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Britt Reid, a young newspaper publisher who secretly fights crime as the Green Hornet, with his valet Kato, looks into a child labor racket. Tommy, a boy who sells handkerchiefs on the street at night, and his mother are caught in a scheme run by a hidden organizer. A reporter named Larry Moran has been investigating the racket and follows the trail to a small-time crook named Grafton. The Green Hornet and Kato set out to expose the people controlling the children. The Green Hornet is a 1940 episode of the radio series The Green Hornet, first aired March 11, 1940. The cast includes the lead actors named in this episode's details.

A city, including a courthouse with night court, a newspaper city room, a department store street corner, and a rundown apartment building.

Characters: Britt Reid, Kato, Larry Moran, Tommy, Mrs. Curry, Grafton, Fletcher, Drapin

Listen for: Listen for the racket's organizer and how the Green Hornet tracks Grafton through Larry Moran's lead on the car and the license number.

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.