003- The Diamond as Big as the Ritz -Jack Edwards Jr

Escape! Escape tonight to a fabulous world where there is a diamond as big as the rich. The Columbia Broadcasting System and its affiliated stations presents Escape! A new series of programs of which this the third is, the Diamond as Big as the Ritz, my F Scott Fitzgerald, produced and directed by William N. Robeson.

In a country as large as ours, there are many odd and wonderful corners hidden away, but none more fabulous and wonderful than the one conceived in the imagination of F. Scott Fitzgerald and located in the pages of his famous short story, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz.

It is described in the words of John Unger, 20 years old, impressionable, and quite willing to swear to the truth of this whole strange affair. I'd been going to the St. Midas Prep School for a couple of years and this was my second summer vacation.

I'd met this fellow Percy Washington during the winter and got to be pretty good friends with him. Only I didn't know about his family or where he came from or anything like that. Of course I knew he must be rich because all the fellas at St. Midas come from wealthy families.

So, when he invited me to spend the summer at his home out west someplace, that was okay by me. Well, we'd been on the train overnight when he first mentioned it. I don't even remember now what led up to it.

We've been talking about first one thing, not another. Exactly where is your home, Percy? I mean, you bought the train tickets and all. It's in Montana, sort of. Montana? Oh, yes. It's pretty wild country, isn't it?