 Green Hornet He hunts the biggest of all game Public enemies who try to destroy our America With his faithful volatigate old, brick-free, daring young publisher Matches with the underworld Wasting his life that criminals and racketeers within the law May feel its weight by the sting of the Green Hornet The Green Hornet strikes again We'll begin tonight's exciting story in just a moment The adventurer, words and music The events and characters depicted in this drama are fictitious Any similarity to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental Let's successful radio, talking and recording I'll assure you the glamorous road to fame and fortune Let the words and music for a song hit Let the three J's, Joe, Jack and James do the rest We publish in this tribute We're guaranteed to put your song in the hands of leading movie producers, orchestras and radio stations Get out of the rep, write a song That's some fun, Ed Joe, you ought to quit music publishing and go in for ad writing Look at him That's good, Joe But y'all have something about sunflower-free booklets and full details Oh, I got that here, right down at the bottom Now the idea is that we'll run this in other cheap magazines with a blank to be sent in We've been involved with this record a long enough Now it's time to branch out That's the idea, get into a nationwide business Hold on, Jack Maybe we should get a lawyer to look things over We'll be using the mail, you know I talk with a lawyer, Jim We aren't breaking any laws They're not that line submitting songs to radio stations, dance bands and all that We will We'll submit them If they toss them in the wastebasket, that's not our worry Okay Another thing the lawyer said What's that? We ought to protect each other I got some contracts here, see Contracts for what? We all sign them It's a partnership agreement so we don't break up Break up? Yeah Suppose one of us finds a job with a radio sponsor or something None of us could, you know that, Jack We worked as a harmony trio We're washed up as far as that stuff goes Maybe your pipes were never good for solo stuff But Jim can do a good tenor Oh, pardon me, I'm with a publishing wagon There's big deal with it And we don't have to worry about commercial contracts while they work We're not the same, we should have an agreement If one of us pulls out or dies, the other two get his share of the work That's fair enough, Jack How's all that to me? I thought it'd be okay with you two If we're going into big business, we might as well be organized right So what about this ad? Is it okay with you two to go ahead and run it? As soon as we get started, the two of the dole begin rolling in The advertising for the Three Jays was widely circulated throughout the country And a few weeks later, cash came pouring into the publisher's office with every mail they live with Hundreds of hopeful young people awaited the verdict of the Racketeer Trio But this Waldo Fielding did Any mail for me today, Mother? Yes, Waldo did the letter from that song publisher Where is it? Gee, I can hardly wait to hear what they say about my poem Wouldn't it be swell if they put music to it and publish? That's the letter, Waldo If I could just get the start Well, look at what some people make out of songs I heard that sometimes a guy makes as much as... Ma What is it, Waldo? They'll accept my poem Yeah, they'll like it They'll have one of the best men write the tune And then they'll publish it and see that it goes to all the radio stations And the movie studios and the dance bands Oh boy, I knew I could do it But Waldo, won't they expect a lot of money for doing all that? I know They say here that they'll take the chance on royalties If I don't make anything, they won't make anything either All I have to do is pay for the copyright And the printing cost of mailing But how much is that? Well, I suppose it'll seem like a lot to you, Mama It's about $50 But not much, really Well, I'll bet a lawyer would charge almost that much Just to get the copyright for me And it might bring me in as much as half a million dollars But Waldo, $50, we haven't got that much I get it I'll sell my camera and I can get something for my banjo The chances are that Steve will pay a little for my shotgun I'll get the money, don't you worry about it, Ma You just wait I'll be rich one of these days I'm gonna start on another song called Right Away Several more weeks elapsed Joe, Jack and Jim found a valuable gold mine in their venture They expanded in their advertising, moved into larger offices And then one day Hey, Joe, Jack Yeah, Jim Better business people than checking up So what? They don't like our way of doing business Oh, they don't, huh? Well, isn't that too bad? What are they going to do about it? They'll probably publish some warnings about it Ah, the suckers that send lyrics and tunes to us won't listen to warnings They're so convinced that their stuff is good They'll believe whatever they want to believe What's the psychology of this business? Just passing on what that blade from the business bureau told me He claims we're running a record It isn't a record at all We take a certain fee for publishing a song Agreed to secure a copyright, publish a tune, a lyric Whichever is required And have a certain number of copies printed and distributed And we do all those things Certainly We fulfill our part of the contract of the letter There is no law in the country that can touch us But it won't do us any good to have newspaper ads Calling attention to our way of doing business Well, we can't stop it, can we? Well, I thought it was agreeable to you two I make a few promises and solve things all for a while But let me just give you a foothold An ad in a paper in one city isn't going to hurt us much Our business is nationwide Let him advertise Can't hurt us Okay, Jack, except for you And, Joe I agree with Jack Well, what about the tunes for this batch of stuff that came in today? You guys are all sorters according to me, don't you? Yeah Okay, well, let's have it I'll wrap out a few little jingles and give them some music It seems to me it's kind of risky using the same tune For half a dozen different songs Yeah, the stuff never amounts to anything Nobody ever hears it What's the difference? I can't think about 150 new tunes every day It keeps the stuff pretty well scattered, don't you, Jim? Sure For example, I use that tune, Moonlight Love On the poem of the guy in New York One in St. Louis, maybe one in Omaha One in the West Coast That saved me writing so different to him, see? It's kind of tough if the fellas ever got together And found I had the same tune Trot-chaser that What would happen if one of the fellas became a hit by head? That's a good one, Joe How can any of this stuff ever be a hit? We'll see to it that it isn't I wanted to speak to you Very kind of you What do you want here? My name is Philly What about Philly? I think she's selling a few weeks ago Remember the name? I saw her feeling we're in Congress now We can't be disturbed I've been trying for four days to see you I spent all my money What do you want to see us about, kid? My song Did you get your copies of it? Yes, sir, but I wondered if there hadn't been some sales, mate Where are you from? Simmons Corner Well, what are you doing here in the big city? Well, I thought my song would be selling So I came here I thought I might be able to do better if I was working closer with you You see, the girl on the other side has not got a check-up on the sale of yourself But I doubt if it's had any sales yet You know, it takes time to put the new things over All right I thought I might make a personal appearance with an art store number Well, real send for you won't be much of a that, kid I did speak to the girl What'd she tell you? She said that there hadn't been any sales yet Well, that's the answer then Why don't you go back to Simmons Corner wherever you're home and stay there, it'll be sent for you All right Look, there must be some sales If you sent that song out telling the people to claim you did it I haven't eaten in two days I gotta have some money Well, what do you want us to do? Dish it out of our pockets? We're running a publishing house Meta Traversy Yes, sir We sent you 50 copies of the song Why don't you go out in the street corner and try to peddle me something That's one way to tell my business Yes, sir Do you want to buy a song? Say, mister, do you want to buy a copy of my song? Not today Buy a copy of my song, Randy Get out of my way Look, mister, do you want to take a copy of the newest song you hit home? Hey, you What are you doing there, blocking the traffic? Oh, sir I didn't mean anything What's this you're trying to peddle? Music? Yes, sir I'm trying to sell a song Maybe you'd better find out something about the laws of this town You can't stand on street corners in the theorem of pedestrians in music Got a license? License? No, it's heaven You'd better come down the station and out with me, I guess No No, please I didn't know Come on, kid You can't get away with this sort of thing Hey Suffer and catch The kids passed out What have you got there, Doyle? Lowry, why is it that you're at every place I am? I learned when I first started in this report of a fentanyl Doyle that if I keep posting up to you I see things happen What's the matter with the kid? Do you want him with your night stick? No I just started to take him in for peddling music on the street and he passed out cold on me The kid looks half-starred He does that How long has it since he's eaten? I don't know Here Lowry, stay with him till I call the wagon Yeah, maybe I'll get a story here This looks like human interest stuff Ed Laugh is a star reporter of the Daily Sentinel who came into the office of the young publisher Britt Reid a couple of hours later Ms. Case, Reed's secretary said Mr. Reid's not in now, Lowry But I gotta see him about a special story Still out Where? All the dickings do I know where he goes I'm the last one he tells That's discouraging Discouraging? Hey, now listen, Casey don't get ideas that the boss is interested in you He travels with the 400 Don't be idiotic As far as Britt Reid is concerned you're just part of the office furniture I do, she's settled down long enough so I could write to his father with some feeling of confidence What's the trouble? Oh, just as soon as I write Mr. Reid and tell him that Britt's taking an interest in the Daily Sentinel he disappears Lady, if I had his though I'd never come to the office During the past week he's been out to some affair almost every night He's bored with the office again Well, he'll get his fill at night life and then settle down again Yes, until he gets a fill in the newspaper business again Oh, here he is Say boss, I ran into a girl a big cop today Oh, yes And he had a kid in tow The kid had passed out from hunger but when Doyle spotted him first he was trying to peddle a song he'd written And it ties right in with the racket we've been working on What racket was that, Larry? Music publishing You know, those Wildcat publishers that call themselves Joe, Jack and Jim the 3Js? Who are they? A broken down vocal field that hit a good racket I got a first-hand story from one of the victims of the racket The poor kid got just enough encouragement from them to put his job and leave home Here, here's a song he wrote and brought a copy for you Believe it or not, Miss Cache I'll take it with me when I get home Well, what about my story? I got pictures of the kid I got pictures of the study editor, buddy He's paid to handle that sort of thing But maybe there's an editorial meeting I think this is the best judge for that Oh, hang it all That's about it, Larry Well, look here, boss I'll get my gun again, Larry Okay, okay, I'll take it that guy again There's the words and music Mr. Reed Yes, Miss Cache I'm gonna stick my neck out again Isn't there something we can do to make the office more attractive for you? Oh, no, it's quite all right, Miss Cache Then why can't you... Why won't you... Oh, I understand, Miss Cache Here, I can stand again because I'm spending too little time around here Frankly, I am, Mr. Reed I hate to keep adding your father to the changes Ah, I'm sorry But you have to admit that newspaper work hasn't a great deal of adventure That might have Oh, yes, Miss Cache It might have That was funny and excitement while the Green Hornet was so active Oh, well, it was, wasn't it? I wonder if the Hornet has been killed Killed? Well, why, Miss Cache We haven't had a story about a Hornet adventure and caught a wild That's true He may have been killed or he may have only retired I doubt the Green Hornet would retire, Miss Cache Well, perhaps then the police and public had been secretly aroused that the Hornet doesn't risk making another appearance That's quite possible I never saw you more interested in the newspaper than while the Green Hornet was running wild Well, you must admit the Green Hornet's running He certainly did Mr. Reed is just as much excitement as everyday life if you could only realize it For example? For example, that lad that Lowry tried to tell you about Lord O'Fielding was very human interest for a chap that fought for racketeers quit his job with a little home community come to the big city goes hungry, is misled and victimized by his fake music publishers If there's something the law can do what publishers are up to If the law, the law would be doing it but they stay inside the law, Mr. Reed So according to Lowry they have a contract and they fulfill a term to the contract So the law has happened Yeah, I've heard about the racket, Miss Cache Aren't you going into your office? No, I think I'll leave for the day It's after four Mr. Reed Talk to the couple all with me just as far as five hours They will By the way You will stop in then tomorrow I'll talk to the couple when he stops in The Green Hornet would only start up again and perhaps Mr. Reed would become interested in the publication of news The curtain falls on the first act of the Green Hornet adventure Before the next exciting scene please permit us to pause for just a few moments and to continue our story That Reed went directly from his office to his apartment He was uneasy and restless and only Cato his faithful vellet realized the real cause of the uneasiness You're right, Cato They do show how fabric tied down There was some way the whore up to get at this music publishing racket I'd go out But they're riskless, babe The risk becomes finer There's a risk of anything, Cato Yeah, it's a bit I can't find any way it can be broken up Not even if we do use the role of the Green Hornet to get at them Is it big? It's nationwide Those three crooks Joe, Jack and Jim have thousands of people all over the country sending money to them Money that won't bring a thing except false encouragement and heartbreak Yes, sir Yeah, look at tonight's stuff, man Look at that warning from a better business now Man, one of the bar few inches high gear than the quarter of a page But you can go to stop people from being made victims not on your life I even ran one of the songs A typical song copyrighted and published by Joe, Jack and Jim to show the stuff they called good Cato I haven't just occurred to me What is it? I have an idea, Cato And I was going to be exciting after all This may be the entering wedge Maybe this is what the Green Hornet's been waiting for Yeah, for the business, Piero Cato It shows a typical song published by that film of Joe, Jack and Jim And the music for this is the same tune that was used by that young chap Larry bought in a story about music I don't know a great deal about music, but I do know that much I have engagement for tonight They're a quarter They're canceling them We're going to make other plans Why are they? This may give me the lead I need to smash that publishing firm Joe, Jack and Jim Well, we will see if they're staying within the law Well, what do we do? Joe Go to the office I want to look around there for a while until my suspicions are correct We'll hold a meeting of the firm The firm Jim Come on We're taking off the black beauty The creed went to a secret panel in the rear of his closed press and then by means of a passage between the walls of the apartment building he reached a small door that opened into the loft of an old supposedly abandoned delivery stable It was here unknown to everyone that the sleek black car of the green Hornet was housed Is the car ready? Yes, sir Mask? Here, here Guys, weapon? Here Good enough I want a telephone Joe, Jack and Jim and I can do that from my own office later on this evening Yes, sir Now let's get going There's the night watch from Kato standing at the entrance to the building Yes, sir You take the car under the rear I'll handle him What are you going to do? I'll have to knock him off and get him out of the way I can't take chances in him Take the car now You know where to make me? I know At them below over his eyes almost hiding the mask the green Hornet approached the entrance of the office building where I managed to be smoking the pipe The officers are all closed now, mister I don't want to hurt you What have you done, apartment? I'll host it for an hour If I need more time I'll give you some more gas Dragging the unconscious form of a watchman inside the building the green Hornet left him in a corner then ran the elevator to the 10th floor Half an hour later the three J's had a phone call at their apartment I suppose that's just another one of these would-be writers calling some information on his song here Hey, sir, Jake Hello I wish we'd given that feeling, kid in the door Oh, stop harping about him, Jim Yeah Passing out on the street like he did hunger I don't want to do this any good I don't want to hurt us any Yeah The level of people get him, he just won Yeah He should have come to the city in the first place Maybe you're right, Joe That'll be swell Who's he got on the floor? Looks like it's something pretty good Yes, sir, right away Hey, fellas we're set to really go places Who is that? A publisher Publisher? Magazine publisher One of those cheap picture mags He's in town for the evening and wants to talk to us about running a picture story of our business Yeah, hey, that would be swell publicity Wouldn't that be all? That'll all set with the similar latest done More on our sped it It's a national magazine What do you see him? Right away He asked if I couldn't meet him in our office tonight Today? Yeah, and let him see what sort of picture story could be run Good, we'll go with you Yeah, come on, let's start This is the break of our lifetime Joe, Jack and Jim rushed in the cab to their office building and found the front door open The washroom must be on the first floor Yeah, that'll save us waiting for the elevator All right Where are you? You're on the first floor of the elevator just coming down there What do you mean the front door open like that? Who knows about it? All right, get covered What in place? Mass, the green toilet Well, if you can run this elevator Get in there and I'll tow you up where the night watchman is You'll kill them Get up, boy Don't shoot What do you have there? Up to your office Get going now That 10th floor, you know Stop waiting that gun around I'll stop all of it and you'll have it at the first time I'll take it Go Jim What's that for on you two? Shot him in cold blood Yeah How do you like it? Leave him like what he is You open that door and get to your office What are you going to do? You'll find stuff along there There's a light there I left it You didn't think about the magazine publisher because I was the one who found you at the delivery of using your own telephone I have kept it You won't need them I've unlocked the door out of everything else that needs unlocking Now what? Sit down in there What's all this stuff? They're so-called song hits Yeah, I see They've got to a little have possibilities, haven't they, Jack? By sure Still they have Those are the green hornet with a steel one of them I just suppose there'll be a lot of publicity about the green hornet shooting two men maybe more to get possession of one specific song What would happen to the sale of that song? Hey, that's right It'll become a hit of the week Every band would use at every radio station be free-slinging on the song and bring thousands and thousands of dollars in royalties Maybe we can make a deal If all I finish talking to your crooks you won't want that sort of thing to happen What? Why not? Your power's gonna be broke You're gonna be smashed to a finish Broke? Smash I've already addressed a few envelopes and I'll say that the rest are addressed Then I act Take a look at them I... I don't understand You will Take a look at those three sheets of music I've laid out for you What about it? How was that music? We did Well, what of it? And who secured copyrights? We did One of these songs can be made into a hit turned on the right promotion I think I can say that it gets that promotion I've already explained how Well, a hit is what you got before they hit Well, for example, this number becomes a hit What do you suppose the authors of these other songs will the same music would do? That's still, wouldn't they? Yeah, they... It's probably true It's probably a dozen other poets who've been given the same melody for their song They all start in our suits You know, it too would be dragged through every court in the country The whole racketeering business would be laid out in the open Can you stand having a sensational song hit? I... I don't know I know you can't That's why I came here It was a mistake And that's it It was a mistake The printers made a mistake They get the words and music I think so, son I can go through your files and show you plenty of the same sort of mistakes Sit down at that desk What do you want? Money, lots of money And your checkbook I don't know if your bike balance there You can write a lot of checks Checks? I said checks For who? Make out the first to Harvey Dale D-A-L-E According to your records he's paid in $150 That's the amount you send him And who else? Stop writing I'll do it I don't know I'll have Jack do it Why don't you make those checks Where's something? Go on now Stop writing Now you see here All right, how far are you going? As far as your bank balance will allow There's 200 that go to Mrs. Agnew 100 each of the people on this list 75 of these people And there's the list of those who get $50 each Harvey broke, I can't afford all that You can't afford not to pay up You'll afford it a whole lot better than these people contributed to your success And there's another thing, Jack Rob and Steve Stop They said there was another thing We may have to overdraw your bank account considerably I can't You better convert some of the bonds you hold a couple of checks you make out tonight I can't Why don't you trade in some life insurance? If you don't cover those checks you might as soon find yourself not only in court but eventually in jail What would a jewelry made of people read all about your record in the magazines and newspapers give you? Take your choice, Rat Go broke and stay free Go broke and go to jail and make out checks until you get the writer's cramp and stay that those checks clear the bank By first one threat and another the Green Hornet can tell the publisher to make out checks for your fund money and then That's as far as your cash will go I'll see to it that he's empty for a minute You can't get away with it Oh Let me explain that I can still make one of your songs a hit The song that Jim gave his life to keep from the Green Hornet The song that has some hidden significance to the Green Hornet One small bit of the song torn and found in the clenched fist of the latest victim of the Hornet's weapon Jim I'm taking him with me I know where enough of checks for the bank If they don't Jim will be found with this emblem plastered to his forehead The mark of the Green Hornet In this part of this song clenched in his fist Wait, where? If we don't stop payment it Those checks go through I don't have nothing but poverty to worry about I don't pry another record like this one The Green Hornet can make one of your songs a hit at any time Only the next time it might be one of you who furnishes the clenched fist Leaving the two racketeers in their office the Hornet took the elevator to the first floor dragged the still-unconscious man to the rear door of the building and put him into the car It was okay, though Well, we'll do it I'll have to keep him on the cover and at least check for the bank And then, Kato, I can let him go Lowry! Hey, Lowry, have you heard the news? Which news? That feeling kid got a reef one from Joe, Jack, and Jim That's news Yes, and the mouth of the Green Hornet was on the letter that went with it Yeah, that's a page one story The Hornet has stepped down again I wish I had all the details But that's not the biggest thing Mr. Reed was in bright and yellow this morning He's a newspaper man again He's been working like a trojan all day Trying to run down some leads on the Hornet from that information he gathered He is? Yeah, but it won't last No one says that he'll lose interest again if the Green Hornet goes back into seclusion But what if the Green Hornet was to be captured? I'm afraid Bruce Reed would lose interest in the fentanyl in that case too These popular radio dramas created by George W. Trennell are a copyrighted feature of the Green Hornet Incorporated All characters, names, places, and incidents used are fictitious