Speaker 1: Fed up with the everyday grind, tied out from the
Speaker 1: summer heat, want to get away from it. Ah, we
Speaker 1: offer you.
Speaker 2: Escape, escape designed to free you from the four walls
Speaker 2: of today. For a half hour of high adventure.
Speaker 1: You are prisoner in the magnificent mountain retreat of the
Speaker 1: richest man in the world. While haunting you, terrifying you
Speaker 1: is the knowledge that the ultimate escape will be death.
Speaker 2: Tonight we escape to an isolated Montana plateau and the
Speaker 2: strange secret of a stranger family.
Speaker 3: As F.
Speaker 2: Scott Fitzgerald told it in his fantastic story The Diamond
Speaker 2: As Big as the Ritz.
Speaker 3: I've been going to Saint Midas Prep School for a
Speaker 3: couple of years. This was my second summer vacation. I'd
Speaker 3: met this fellow, Percy Washington, during the winter, got to
Speaker 3: be pretty good friends with him. Only I didn't know
Speaker 3: about his family, or where he came from, or anything
Speaker 3: like that. Of course, I knew he must be rich.
Speaker 3: All the fellows at Saint Midas came from wealthy families.
Speaker 3: So when he invited me to spend the summer at
Speaker 3: his home out west someplace, it was okay by me.
Speaker 3: Been on the train overnight when he first mentioned it.
Speaker 3: I don't even remember now what led up to it.
Speaker 3: We'd been talking about, first one thing and then another. Percy,
Speaker 3: Exactly where is your home? I mean you bought the
Speaker 3: train tickets.
Speaker 4: It's in Montana's Montana.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, pretty wild country, isn't it. Some of it
Speaker 3: is now. You take Haydes, Missouri, where I come from.
Speaker 3: It's been settled for one hundred and fifty years, one
Speaker 3: of the first towns on the Mississippi River.
Speaker 4: Indeed, Oh, sure, that's very interesting.
Speaker 3: I sure to appreciate you're not making jokes about it
Speaker 3: the way some of the fellas do. And I say,
Speaker 3: I come from Hades.
Speaker 4: Why you know my father's huh do you know that
Speaker 4: my father is the richest man in the world.
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: By father riches?
Speaker 3: I read about a man that paid taxes on a
Speaker 3: five million dollar income.
Speaker 4: Small fry. If my father paid tax on his real income,
Speaker 4: he'd disrupt the whole economy of the United States.
Speaker 3: No kidding. Oh, I like rich people. The richer fellow
Speaker 3: with the better I like him.
Speaker 4: My father could buy out all of the millionaires in
Speaker 4: the country and not even know he had done it.
Speaker 3: Is that a fact? I visited the Schlitzer Murphys. Once
Speaker 3: they're plenty rich, Why their daughter Vivian's got rubies as
Speaker 3: big as hen's eggs and sapphires that glow like headlamps.
Speaker 4: I like jewels, always have. I used to collect them
Speaker 4: instead of stamps.
Speaker 3: Diamonds. The Slitzer Murphy's had diamonds as big as walnuts.
Speaker 4: Oh that's nothing, huh, nothing at all. My father has
Speaker 4: a diamond as big as the Ritz. Please I'm not joking, but.
Speaker 3: You mean as big as the Ritz Carlton Hotel. Exactly.
Speaker 4: My father has a diamond as big.
Speaker 3: As the Ritz. We got off the train about dusk
Speaker 3: at a little whistle stop called fish Montana. There wasn't
Speaker 3: anything there, not even a station, just a broken down
Speaker 3: old buggy and four or five sheep herders lounging beside
Speaker 3: the track. And I suppose, wondering who we were anyway,
Speaker 3: Percy and I climbed into the buggy, and without saying
Speaker 3: a word, the driver cracked his whip and off we went.
Speaker 3: I don't know how far we traveled. We didn't seem
Speaker 3: to be following any road, though, and after an hour
Speaker 3: or so it gotten dark, but the driver kept right on,
Speaker 3: never saying a word.
Speaker 4: I hope you'll pardon this inconvenience, John, but we have
Speaker 4: to take certain precautions, you know.
Speaker 3: Oh that's all right.
Speaker 4: Anyway, we're almost there.
Speaker 3: You're home you mean?
Speaker 4: Oh, no, to the place where we consider it safe
Speaker 4: to transfer a transfer?
Speaker 3: What do you mean?
Speaker 4: Oh, there's the signal. Now headlights, we'll let the horse
Speaker 4: abs them.
Speaker 3: Here we are an automobile. But how there's no road?
Speaker 4: Oh this caused special build doesn't need roads. Welcome home, Master,
Speaker 4: Good evening, Gigsum. Come on, John, let's get in cars.
Speaker 3: There's this car. What it's made out of? Silver?
Speaker 4: No platinum? Those are emeralds in the hubcabs.
Speaker 3: And the upholstering it.
Speaker 4: It's fur mink.
Speaker 3: You're ready, Master.
Speaker 4: Anytime, Gigsum. You'll probably notice the exceptional fitness of the headlamps.
Speaker 4: The lenses are cut from diamonds.
Speaker 3: Boy, what a car.
Speaker 4: This old junkie who years at first station wagon? Hey?
Speaker 3: Why did we stop, Percy? This is just a deserted canyon.
Speaker 4: Oh we're not yet there yet, John. Wait, you'll see
Speaker 4: they sent down the hooks while we were coming from
Speaker 4: the station. The hooks, yes, to attach the wheels, you know,
Speaker 4: that's what Gigson's doing now. Incidentally, Gigson will look after
Speaker 4: you during our visit, look after me, your personal valet.
Speaker 4: Of course, there'll be other slaves available too, whenever you
Speaker 4: need them.
Speaker 3: Do you have a lot of slaves?
Speaker 4: Three or four hundred? I suppose, Oh already, Gigsum.
Speaker 3: Yes, must hello, hoist away. Look we're leaving the ground.
Speaker 4: Yes, there's a hoist up there on top of the cliff,
Speaker 4: has cables about a quarter of a mile long. But
Speaker 4: what four it's the only way.
Speaker 3: In imagine hoisting an automobile a quarter of a mile
Speaker 3: up the side of a cliff.
Speaker 4: It's really nothing. As you may have guessed, John, this
Speaker 4: is not going to be like anything you ever saw
Speaker 4: before in your life. Well, John, there it is.
Speaker 3: That's your home. It's magnificent Palatio.
Speaker 4: That's not bad.
Speaker 3: How big is it?
Speaker 4: I think it's around one hundred and forty rooms. The
Speaker 4: father may remember exactly.
Speaker 5: Then.
Speaker 4: Of course there are other buildings, slaves, quarters and things.
Speaker 3: Why hasn't anyone ever found out about it? This place?
Speaker 4: I mean, well, for one thing, it's the only five
Speaker 4: square in the United States that have never been surveyed.
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 4: Oh? Things were arranged.
Speaker 3: I don't see how that's possible.
Speaker 4: Believe me, it hasn't been easy. I understand. Grandfather had
Speaker 4: to bribe three government bureaus, a vice president and half
Speaker 4: of Congress. Wants to keep the place off the maps.
Speaker 3: But somebody surely stumbled onto it to prospectors people like that.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, that happens occasionally. Then, of course we have
Speaker 4: to arrange things, you mean, not always. Usually we just
Speaker 4: take them prisoner and keep them like the aviators.
Speaker 3: Planes come here.
Speaker 4: Once in a while, they fly over. Of course they
Speaker 4: never get away. We have nine anti aircraft batteries around
Speaker 4: the hills.
Speaker 3: You shoot them down.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, great sport. It does upset mother a bit,
Speaker 4: and there's always a chance one might get away. That's
Speaker 4: father's greatest worry.
Speaker 3: This place is, this whole thing is It's fantastic.
Speaker 4: Oh come now, John, I picked you for a fellow
Speaker 4: with his feet on the ground, and you haven't seen
Speaker 4: anything yet. You know, this is only the beginning.
Speaker 3: And it was only the beginning. We crossed the acres
Speaker 3: of Wan and entered the Great Chateau, and from that
Speaker 3: moment on, vision upon vision tumbled together in a gigantic
Speaker 3: kaleidoscope of color, symmetry, and exquisite harmony. There were corridors
Speaker 3: lined with gleaming crystals, lit by lamps cut from emerald,
Speaker 3: and great halls carpeted with chinchilla fur and ermine. And
Speaker 3: there was a white haired man, pink faced and very pleasant,
Speaker 3: who was Percy's father, and Percy's mother, a lovely lady
Speaker 3: with dark hair piled high on her head like a
Speaker 3: fragile queen. Soft music came from hidden places, Perfumes filled
Speaker 3: the air, Exotic foods and wines more rare than pearl.
Speaker 3: I thought there could be no more nor greater wonders.
Speaker 3: I was wrong. There were many more and greater ones.
Speaker 3: And one of them I discovered the next morning in
Speaker 3: the garden. Hello there, Yeah, Oh you're lovely.
Speaker 5: My name is kiss Mine. You're John Hunger. You're a
Speaker 5: friend of my brother. You from the East.
Speaker 3: Oh no, at least not exactly. I I am from
Speaker 3: hades O Misery.
Speaker 5: Oh would you like to sit down here on the grass?
Speaker 3: Why? Oh, yes, sure I would.
Speaker 5: I'm going east to school this fall. Just suppose I
Speaker 5: like it.
Speaker 3: I think so. Of course it'll be different from all this.
Speaker 5: That's what Jasmine said. She's in the East. Now I've
Speaker 5: never been outside.
Speaker 3: Who is Jasmine?
Speaker 5: My sister? She's older than I am.
Speaker 3: I hope you won't be offended. But you're the most
Speaker 3: beautiful girl I've ever seen.
Speaker 5: Yes, I know why I surprised you didn't. I a
Speaker 5: year ago I would have said thank you. But father
Speaker 5: says it's very necessary to learn to take things for granted.
Speaker 5: So now I just take it for granted that I'm beautiful.
Speaker 3: You see, you're pretty sophisticated, an't you.
Speaker 5: Oh I'm not at all. I believe girls should enjoy
Speaker 5: their youth in a wholesome sort of way.
Speaker 3: Y oh, oh, so do.
Speaker 5: I I like you, John. I wish you'd spend some
Speaker 5: of your time with me this summer, not all with Percy.
Speaker 3: I will kiss me, I I will.
Speaker 5: You may be in love with me if you'd like to.
Speaker 5: I'm absolutely fresh ground. You know.
Speaker 3: I am in love with you.
Speaker 5: Of course we'll have to meet secretly. My parents wouldn't
Speaker 5: permit it if they knew.
Speaker 3: Then that's what we'll do.
Speaker 5: I have to go now, I'm supposed to be with
Speaker 5: mother at eleven. Aren't you going to ask me for
Speaker 5: a kiss? Jasmine says, boys always do nowadays.
Speaker 3: Some of them do, but not me. We don't expect
Speaker 3: nice girls to do that sort of thing. In hades,
Speaker 3: It was a funny thing. Percy's family were polite, friendly,
Speaker 3: always smiling, and yet all the time I had a
Speaker 3: feeling that some terrible and golden mystery lay hidden just
Speaker 3: around the corner. Er few days after I had met Kismine,
Speaker 3: Percy remarked casually that an unusual event had occurred. A
Speaker 3: man had escaped from the cage. I didn't know what
Speaker 3: he meant then, but the next morning I was walking
Speaker 3: with Percy's father on the grounds of the estate and
Speaker 3: mister Washington Percy said something about a man escaping from
Speaker 3: the cage. I didn't quite get it.
Speaker 6: The cage here, Well, perhaps you'd like to see it.
Speaker 6: This might prove interesting just as a novelty.
Speaker 3: It's over there, these trees sixty feet tall, and they
Speaker 3: have roses blooming all of.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, it's a rather interesting development by a Swiss botanist.
Speaker 6: These are the only ones in the world we.
Speaker 3: Although I suppose you'll see them all over the country
Speaker 3: in a few years.
Speaker 6: No, these are the only ones that was arranged.
Speaker 3: Ah. Here we are the cage it's a pit dug
Speaker 3: in the ground grading on top.
Speaker 6: Oh well, yes, it's not really a cage, except in
Speaker 6: a certain sense.
Speaker 3: Well, boys, how are you getting along? How many men
Speaker 3: are there down there?
Speaker 4: About fifty?
Speaker 1: As I recall, who are they?
Speaker 6: The aviators we've shot down, wandering prospectors and many of
Speaker 6: that sort.
Speaker 3: But why are they kept there?
Speaker 6: And they've all had the common misfortune of having discovered
Speaker 6: El Dorado? Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen.
Speaker 7: I am sure you would like to know that your
Speaker 7: companion who departed without my permission, has been taken care of. Yes,
Speaker 7: he was shot by some of my agents in fourteen
Speaker 7: different places.
Speaker 3: Golf, mister Hunger. They found him. Then the man who
Speaker 3: got away.
Speaker 6: No, those places were towns.
Speaker 3: My agents were over eager.
Speaker 6: None of them could offer a positive identification.
Speaker 7: I'm afraid the man may still be at large.
Speaker 3: You see. It's not all utopia here.
Speaker 6: We do have our difficulties.
Speaker 3: Isn't it a little unnecessary houlding them like that?
Speaker 2: Not at all.
Speaker 6: It's the only way to keep this place hidden.
Speaker 3: Yes, I guess that must be important. Oh, Percy was
Speaker 3: telling me something on the train. I thought he was kidding,
Speaker 3: but he said, you had a diamond as big as
Speaker 3: the Ritz called an hotel.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, indeed, as a matter of fact, it's much
Speaker 6: bigger than the Ritz, much bigger.
Speaker 3: Well, summer went on, I was more and more in
Speaker 3: love with his mind. She was priceless, exquisite, like no
Speaker 3: other girl in the world. After a couple of weeks,
Speaker 3: I kissed her, of course, and I was really in
Speaker 3: love for the first time. I should have known, should
Speaker 3: have put two and two together when Percy's father showed
Speaker 3: me the cage, but I didn't until one morning late
Speaker 3: in the summer. I slipped off with his mind to
Speaker 3: the Rose Gardens, kiss mine. I think we ought to Elope.
Speaker 5: I don't know. It would be much nicer to be
Speaker 5: married here. Then it'd be more romantic to Elope. Yes,
Speaker 5: all of Sunday supplements would write stories about fabulous errors elopes.
Speaker 5: I knew an heiress from Omaha once, but I don't
Speaker 5: think you'd like her. She visited my sister here.
Speaker 3: Oh you've uh had other guests.
Speaker 5: Then, well, yes, we've had a few.
Speaker 3: What wasn't your father ever afraid they might talk outside? Well,
Speaker 3: to some extent.
Speaker 5: Let's talk about something more pleasant.
Speaker 3: What's so unpleasant? About it.
Speaker 5: Well, I I grew quite fond of some of them.
Speaker 3: You mean they told and your father.
Speaker 5: They didn't get a chance to Father had to be sure.
Speaker 3: But that's murder.
Speaker 5: What else could we do in the cage. They'd have
Speaker 5: been a constant reproach to us, and father does it
Speaker 5: so nicely. They're always drugged in their sleep, and we
Speaker 5: tell their families they died of scarlet fever, and butwed
Speaker 5: I'm not sure how that affects the statistics there.
Speaker 3: All the horrible it is not.
Speaker 5: You're all to be terribly boring here without ever having anybody.
Speaker 5: My father and mother have sacrificed some of their best friends.
Speaker 3: You're no better than that's what they plan to do
Speaker 3: with me? Then?
Speaker 5: Couldn't you try to forget it? Be nice to me
Speaker 5: until until you're put away. It's only for two or
Speaker 5: three weeks.
Speaker 3: You you'd go on this way, kissing, talking about love
Speaker 3: when you know I'm not much better than a corpse.
Speaker 5: You're not a corpse, You're not. I won't have you
Speaker 5: saying I kissed a corp.
Speaker 3: That wasn't what I said. You did too, I did not.
Speaker 6: You said it a just a moment. Who kissed a corpse.
Speaker 5: Nobody.
Speaker 3: We were just joking.
Speaker 6: You two haven't any business here anyway. Now, Gius mine
Speaker 6: go read, go, go, go, go, go play golf. Now,
Speaker 6: don't you let me find you here when I come back? Yes, father,
Speaker 6: good day children.
Speaker 5: You see now he knows you've spoiled everything.
Speaker 3: You don't really love me, his mine? You? What's the
Speaker 3: use if you are rich and have this place? Why
Speaker 3: would it be so terrible if anyone found out about it?
Speaker 5: It's on account of the diamond.
Speaker 3: Of course, diamond. What is this diamond all of you
Speaker 3: talk about.
Speaker 5: You'd better ask Percy. I'm always getting things mixed up.
Speaker 3: I will ask him. And another thing I'm getting out
Speaker 3: of here tonight. If I have to dig through the mountains,
Speaker 3: I'm going back east. Take me with you? No, why not?
Speaker 3: Your father wouldn't permit it.
Speaker 5: You won't take me. I'll go tell him I want
Speaker 5: to marry you.
Speaker 3: You can't do that. He'd bump me off this afternoon.
Speaker 5: Please take me, darling. It will be terribly poor and
Speaker 5: very happy, and I'll cook things for you, herbs and
Speaker 5: berries and stuff. Will that be fun?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: You will, won't you?
Speaker 3: John? Well, My head was really in a whirld. This
Speaker 3: whole thing was fantastic, and so was the family, even
Speaker 3: kids mine. I couldn't think of anything to do, but
Speaker 3: I rushed to see Percy.
Speaker 4: But John, why didn't you ask me before?
Speaker 3: Because I thought you were kidding all the time.
Speaker 4: I know you wouldn't believe me if I'd told you.
Speaker 3: I'm ready to believe anything now.
Speaker 4: Well, it was my grandfather who started the whole thing,
Speaker 4: purely by accident. He came out here from Virginia after
Speaker 4: the War between the States and stumbled onto it under
Speaker 4: what the diamond. Of course, that's what made all this possible.
Speaker 4: Grandfather spent two years going around to different cities of
Speaker 4: the world selling bits of it. Then he started building
Speaker 4: this place. He put his money into jewels, but father
Speaker 4: found that radium took up much less space. But but
Speaker 4: why the secrecy, Oh, we just wouldn't do if anyone
Speaker 4: found out, ruined the whole economy of the world. The
Speaker 4: thing's too big.
Speaker 3: This has been going on for three generations. When the
Speaker 3: cage and and this thing of inviting friends.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, you see, there wasn't really any danger before aeroplanes.
Speaker 3: They are what worrious And you knew when you invited
Speaker 3: me here. What would happen? Please?
Speaker 4: John, I thought you'd be more sensible about it. After all,
Speaker 4: you can see my position.
Speaker 3: Yeah, where is it? Where do you keep this diamond?
Speaker 3: That's cast? So clock had much trouble?
Speaker 4: Oh, I thought you'd guest. You've noticed the hill the
Speaker 4: chateau stands on. Yes, it contains a cubic mile, and
Speaker 4: except for a thin covering of dirt, it's one big,
Speaker 4: solid diamond.
Speaker 3: It was nearly midnight. I didn't know what awakened me,
Speaker 3: but all of a sudden I we was staring across
Speaker 3: the patches of moonlight, spotting the ermine carpet of my bedroom,
Speaker 3: staring at three slaves I'd never seen before. They just
Speaker 3: slipped inside the door and stood there, each with a
Speaker 3: vicious length of shiny copper wire, the official executioners. I
Speaker 3: lay there on the bed, watching them, counting heartbeats, not
Speaker 3: daring to move, not daring not to move. They didn't
Speaker 3: know I'd waken. They began edging across the room.
Speaker 6: Come on, all three of you.
Speaker 3: There's no time now for these all Hell's broken loose.
Speaker 5: Hurry.
Speaker 3: I took one long, deep breath, the first one in
Speaker 3: several moments. Then I was out of the bed in
Speaker 3: an instant, throwing on my clothes and dashing through the
Speaker 3: long crystal corridor to kis Mine's roma. Kis Mine, are
Speaker 3: you awake over here by the window?
Speaker 5: So they woke you up too?
Speaker 3: If you mean three of your father's slaves?
Speaker 5: Two airplanes?
Speaker 3: Airplanes? So that's what it is.
Speaker 5: At least a dozen. I saw them crossing against the moon.
Speaker 5: Look they're circling way over there.
Speaker 3: You think they're here on purpose?
Speaker 5: Yes, they dropped warnings to father. It's that man who
Speaker 5: got away from.
Speaker 3: The cage, you know, good for him, This wasn't he clever?
Speaker 5: I think we'll open up on them any second.
Speaker 3: Now, open up?
Speaker 5: Yes, are any aircraft?
Speaker 3: This is going to be thrilling, thrilling.
Speaker 8: Oh, look they're in range now, Brabo, get away from
Speaker 8: that window.
Speaker 5: Did you see that?
Speaker 3: Yes? And we've got to get out of here. Can't
Speaker 3: you understand there's a.
Speaker 5: Little group of trees across the side of the mountains.
Speaker 5: We always keep one of the cars there. We'll have
Speaker 5: a nice view of everything.
Speaker 3: A nice views mine. You don't seem to understand they
Speaker 3: mean business. They're out to finish off you and your
Speaker 3: whole family.
Speaker 5: But it all seems so silly.
Speaker 8: But when you come right down to it, they've never
Speaker 8: even met us.
Speaker 5: What time is it, John, Is it morning yet?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I've lost my watch. Seems to be
Speaker 3: getting lighter.
Speaker 5: All right, it's quieter too.
Speaker 3: Your guns and knocked out every last one of them.
Speaker 3: It won't belong now.
Speaker 5: Seems such a shame. The family put so much work
Speaker 5: on the place. Everything's always been so pleasant.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you better get some sleep, kiss mine. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: walk down the path a little ways.
Speaker 5: You'll come back, yes, kis.
Speaker 3: Mine, I'll come back. At the edge of the wood,
Speaker 3: I stopped and looked out across the valley toward the
Speaker 3: wrecked chateau standing on its diamond hill. And then suddenly
Speaker 3: three men appeared bearing a heavy burden. Among them it
Speaker 3: was mister Washington and two of the slaves.
Speaker 6: All right, all right, this is far enough.
Speaker 3: We'll stop here now.
Speaker 9: I'll hoist it up and hold it there also together.
Speaker 3: Now, the burden they held up to the heavens was
Speaker 3: an immense dimond.
Speaker 6: O you up there, you're there.
Speaker 3: I could see no one else anywhere in view you
Speaker 3: above there.
Speaker 9: I want you to understand this is only a sample.
Speaker 9: I'll give you a thousand cots fine second pedestals of platinum,
Speaker 9: and I'll build you a temple one thousand feet high
Speaker 9: casts of solid gold, and on the top of it,
Speaker 9: I'll put one diamond one hundred feet across.
Speaker 3: I thought began to day on me. I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 9: I'll let her your name in the temple in emeralds,
Speaker 9: and I'll see that the whole world worship set its space.
Speaker 9: All you have to do, all you have to do
Speaker 9: is make everything the way it was before.
Speaker 3: Mister Washington was offering a bribe to God. He stopped
Speaker 3: talking and waited, and then out of the silent heaven
Speaker 3: blossomed the white puffs of parachutes. The man who had
Speaker 3: tried to bribe God looked up and saw them, and
Speaker 3: he became old in an instant, and, turning with lowered head,
Speaker 3: walked down the path toward the chateau. With sudden premonition,
Speaker 3: I whirled and headed for the spot where I left Kismine,
Speaker 3: kiss Mine and the car that needed no roads.
Speaker 5: Haven't we gone far enough?
Speaker 3: John, I suppose we're ten miles from the chateau.
Speaker 5: It's all so hectic, rushing about and losing sleep and everything.
Speaker 3: And made those field glasses.
Speaker 5: Here we are you see anything?
Speaker 3: No oh, wait, what is it? It's your father and
Speaker 3: mother and Percy. They're going into a tunnel down below
Speaker 3: the chateau. They've got an underground escape.
Speaker 5: No oh, I remember now. The mountain's wired some kind
Speaker 5: of an Adam.
Speaker 3: Bomb, Adam atomic bomb.
Speaker 5: That's it. Father's had it for years. He always said
Speaker 5: it would disintegrate the whole works, diamond and all. Of course,
Speaker 5: he only regarded it as a last resort, so he'd
Speaker 5: rather have it like that.
Speaker 3: They're all inside the tunnel. I can see the troopers
Speaker 3: moving in.
Speaker 5: I don't suppose there's really anything to be done about
Speaker 5: it now, And there wasn't. I keep thinking about things
Speaker 5: the way they were. It was all so pleasant. I
Speaker 5: don't suppose it'll ever be exactly like.
Speaker 3: That again, not ever, kismine, and maybe it never was.
Speaker 3: Youth is a time for dreaming. Dreams die too.
Speaker 5: I'll probably have to take in washing, but of course
Speaker 5: we'll be very happy. What will we do, John do?
Speaker 3: Oh? We can love awhile underneath the stars. That's a
Speaker 3: form of divine drunkenness. We can all try, and then
Speaker 3: there there may be other diamonds in the world. Who knows,
Speaker 3: And even though it's a shabby gift, there's always disillusion.
Speaker 3: Turn up your color chismine before you catch pneumonia. Let's
Speaker 3: go to sleep.
Speaker 2: Escape is produced and directed by Norman MacDonald. Tonight, we
Speaker 2: have brought you the Diamond As Big as the Ritz
Speaker 2: by f Scott Fitzgerald, adapted for radio by Less Crutchfield,
Speaker 2: with editorial supervision by John douncle In. Tonight's cast were
Speaker 2: Sam Edwards, Peggy Weber, Danny Merrill, John Dayner and Don Diamond.
Speaker 2: Special music by Ivan Ditmars.
Speaker 1: Next week, each time you fall asleep, you find yourself
Speaker 1: dreaming the same strange dream, one in which you live
Speaker 1: out your life in the distant future, and always a
Speaker 1: hideous fate moves closer to you, a fate from which
Speaker 1: you cannot escape.
Speaker 2: Next week we escape with another great story by one
Speaker 2: of the world's greatest authors. Good Night, then, until this
Speaker 2: same time next week, when once again we offer you escape.
Speaker 2: This is Roy Ron speaking for CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting
Speaker 2: System