Speaker 1: Tired of the everyday routine. Ever dream of a life
Speaker 1: of romantic adventure, want to get away from it?
Speaker 2: A We offer you escape Escape Design to free you
Speaker 2: from the four walls of today for a half hour
Speaker 2: of high adventure.
Speaker 1: You are prisoner in the magnificent mountain retreat of the
Speaker 1: richest man in the world, get in love with his
Speaker 1: beautiful daughter. While haunting you. Terrifying you is the certain
Speaker 1: knowledge that the only sure escape would be death.
Speaker 2: Today, with Sam Edwards starred as John Hunger, we escaped
Speaker 2: to an isolated plateau in the rocky Mountains and the
Speaker 2: strange story of a stranger family.
Speaker 3: As F.
Speaker 2: Scott Fitzgerald told it in his fascinating tale The Diamond
Speaker 2: As Big as the Ritz.
Speaker 4: I'd been going to Saint Midas Prep School for a
Speaker 4: couple of years, and this was my second summer vacation.
Speaker 4: I'd met this fellow, Percy Washington, during the winter and
Speaker 4: got to be pretty good friends with him. Only I
Speaker 4: didn't know about his family, or where he came from,
Speaker 4: or anything like that. Of course, I knew he must
Speaker 4: be rich. All the fellows at Saint Midas came from
Speaker 4: wealthy families, So when he invited me to spend the
Speaker 4: summer at his home out west, someplace that was okay
Speaker 4: by me. We'd been traveling on the Super Cheap Overnight
Speaker 4: when Percy first mentioned it. I don't even remember now
Speaker 4: what up to it. We've been talking about, first one
Speaker 4: thing and then another. Exactly where is your home, Percy?
Speaker 4: I mean you bought the train tickets and all.
Speaker 3: So I well, it's in the Rockies sort of.
Speaker 4: That is in the Rockies. Huh. Pretty wild country, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Some of it is.
Speaker 4: And now you take Haydes, Missouri, where I come from.
Speaker 4: It's been settled for one hundred and fifty years, one
Speaker 4: of the first towns on the Mississippi River.
Speaker 3: Indeed, Oh, sure, that's very interesting.
Speaker 4: You know, I sure do appreciate your not making jokes
Speaker 4: about it the way some of the fellows do when
Speaker 4: I say I come from Haydes.
Speaker 3: John, do you know that my father is the richest
Speaker 3: man in the world.
Speaker 4: Huh?
Speaker 3: By father richest?
Speaker 4: I read about a man that paid taxes on a
Speaker 4: five million dollar income.
Speaker 3: Small fight. If my father paid a tax on his
Speaker 3: real income, he disrupt the whole economy of the United States,
Speaker 3: No kidding, Oh, I like rich people the richer a
Speaker 3: fellow is the better.
Speaker 4: I like him.
Speaker 3: My father could buy out all the millionaires in the
Speaker 3: country and not even know he'd done it.
Speaker 4: As that a fact. I visited at the Schlitzer Murphys once.
Speaker 4: They're plenty rich. Why their daughter Vivian's got rubies as
Speaker 4: big as hen's eggs.
Speaker 3: I like jewels, always have. I used to collect them
Speaker 3: instead of stamps and diamonds. The Slitzer Murphys had diamonds
Speaker 3: as big as walnuts. Oh that's nothing, huh, nothing at all.
Speaker 3: My father has a diamond as big as the Ritz. Please,
Speaker 3: I'm not joking, but you mean as big as the
Speaker 3: Ritz Carlton Hotel exactly. My father has a diamond as
Speaker 3: big as the Rits. O.
Speaker 4: Well, from there on it was something like a dream.
Speaker 4: We got off the train about dusk, get a little
Speaker 4: whistle stop where there was no town or anything, not
Speaker 4: even a station, just a broken down or buggy Now
Speaker 4: Percy and I climbed in, and without saying a word,
Speaker 4: the driver cracked his will and off we went. I
Speaker 4: don't know how far we travel we didn't seem to
Speaker 4: be following any road, and after an hour or so
Speaker 4: it got dark. The driver kept right on.
Speaker 3: I hope you'll pardon this inconvenience, John, but we have
Speaker 3: to take certain precautions, you know. Oh that's all right, Percy. Anyway,
Speaker 3: we're almost there. You're a home you mean, oh, no,
Speaker 3: to the place where we consider it's safe to transfer
Speaker 3: a transfer?
Speaker 4: What do you mean?
Speaker 3: There's the signal?
Speaker 4: Now, headlights?
Speaker 3: Pull up?
Speaker 4: The horse absent they've seen us an automobile. Yeah, but
Speaker 4: how there's no road?
Speaker 3: Oh it's special build doesn't need roads. Welcome home, must
Speaker 3: good evening, Gigson. Come on, John, let's get in.
Speaker 4: Josh, what's the body made out of? Silver?
Speaker 3: No platinum? Those are emeralds in the hubcats and the
Speaker 3: uphole string. It's for me you already must have anytime, Gigson.
Speaker 3: You'll probably notice, John, the exceptional brightness of the headlights.
Speaker 3: The lenses are cut from diamonds.
Speaker 4: Why what a car?
Speaker 3: This old junk keep? We use it for a station wagon. Hey,
Speaker 3: why didn't we stop, Percy? This is just a deserted canyon. Wait, John,
Speaker 3: you'll see they sent the hooks down while we were
Speaker 3: coming from the train. The hooks, yes, to attach to
Speaker 3: the wheels. You know, that's what Gigsam's doing.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 3: Oh. Incidentally, Gigsam will look after you during your visit,
Speaker 3: look after me your personal valet. Of course, there'll be
Speaker 3: other slip is available to whenever you need them.
Speaker 4: Do you have a lot of slaves.
Speaker 3: Three or four hundred? I suppose muster Oh already, Gigson, yes, must.
Speaker 5: Oh, I say.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Look we're leaving the ground.
Speaker 3: Yes, there's a hoist up there on the top of
Speaker 3: the cliff, has cables about a quarter.
Speaker 4: Of a mile long.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but what four, Well, it's the only way.
Speaker 4: In imagine hoisting an automobile a quarter of a mile
Speaker 4: up the side of a cliff.
Speaker 3: It's nothing really, as you may have guessed, John, this
Speaker 3: is not going to be like anything you ever saw
Speaker 3: before in your life. Well, John, there it is.
Speaker 4: That's your home. Yes, Why, it's magnificent, it's palatial.
Speaker 3: It's not a bad little place. How big is it?
Speaker 3: I think there are around one hundred and forty rooms,
Speaker 3: but father may remember exactly. Then, of course there are
Speaker 3: other buildings, slaves, quarters and things.
Speaker 4: Well, uh, why hasn't anyone ever found out about it?
Speaker 4: This place?
Speaker 3: I mean, for one thing, it's the only five square
Speaker 3: miles in the country that have never been surveyed.
Speaker 4: Why not.
Speaker 3: Oh, things were arranged. I don't see how that's possible.
Speaker 3: Believe me, it hasn't been easy. I understand. Grandfather had
Speaker 3: to bribe three government bureaus, and half of Congress wants
Speaker 3: to keep the place off the maps.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, but surely somebody stumbled onto it. Prospectors people
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, that happens occasionally. Then, of course we have
Speaker 3: to arrange things, you mean, not always. Usually we just
Speaker 3: take them prisoner and keep them like the aviators. Planes
Speaker 3: come here once in a while, the flyover. Of course,
Speaker 3: they never get away. We have nine anti aircraft batteries
Speaker 3: around the hill here.
Speaker 4: You shoot them down.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, great sport does upset mother a bit, though,
Speaker 3: And there's always the chance one might get away. That's
Speaker 3: father's greatest worry.
Speaker 4: This place is, this whole thing is fantastic.
Speaker 3: Oh come now, John, I picked you for a fellow
Speaker 3: with his feet on the ground, and you haven't seen
Speaker 3: anything yet. You know, this is only the beginning.
Speaker 4: And it was only the beginning. We crossed the acres
Speaker 4: of lawn and entered the Great Chateau, and from that
Speaker 4: moment on, vision upon vision tumbled together in a gigantic
Speaker 4: kaleidoscope of color, symmetry and exquisite harmony. There were corridors
Speaker 4: lined with gleaming crystals, lit by lamps cut from emerald,
Speaker 4: and great halls carpeted with tinchillifour and erman. Why even
Speaker 4: the air I breathed carried a subtle fragrance, like the
Speaker 4: scent of platine. There was a white haired man, pink
Speaker 4: faced and pleasant. Who was Percy's father?
Speaker 6: More champagne, mister Dunger.
Speaker 4: Oh, thanks, mister Washington. It's it's very good.
Speaker 6: It's the very best I have it made, especially by
Speaker 6: Paul Masso himself. Gosh really, However, mister Dunger, I don't
Speaker 6: want you to think our life here is just a
Speaker 6: bed of roses. Upon occasion, we do have to arrange things. Oh, yes,
Speaker 6: indeed we do.
Speaker 4: I went to my room thinking there could be no
Speaker 4: more nor greater wonders. I was wrong. There were many
Speaker 4: more and greater ones, and one of them I discovered
Speaker 4: the next morning in the gardens. Hello there, Yeah, Oh
Speaker 4: you're lovely.
Speaker 5: My name is his mine. You're John Hunger. You're offended,
Speaker 5: my brother. Are you from the east?
Speaker 4: No, at least not exactly I'm I'm from Hades, Oh Missouri.
Speaker 5: Would you like to sit down here on the grass?
Speaker 4: Oh? Yes, sure I would.
Speaker 5: I'm going east to school this fall. Do you suppose
Speaker 5: I like it?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 3: I think so.
Speaker 4: Of course it'll be different from all this.
Speaker 5: That's what my sister, Jasmine says, and she's in the east.
Speaker 5: Now I've never been outside.
Speaker 4: I hope you won't be offended. But you're the most
Speaker 4: beautiful girl I've ever seen.
Speaker 5: Yes, I know what. I've 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. Sure,
Speaker 5: I like you, John. I wish you'd spend some of
Speaker 5: your time with me this summer, not all with Percy.
Speaker 4: I will kiss mine. I will.
Speaker 5: You may be in love with me if you would
Speaker 5: like to. I'm absolutely fresh ground.
Speaker 4: You know. I think I am in love with you already.
Speaker 5: Of course we'll have to meet secretly. My parents wouldn't
Speaker 5: permitted it.
Speaker 4: They knew. 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?
Speaker 4: Huh?
Speaker 5: Jasmine says, boys always do nowadays, Oh.
Speaker 4: Some of them do, but not me. We don't expect
Speaker 4: nice girls to do that sort of thing. And hades,
Speaker 4: and it was a funny thing. Percy's family were polite, friendly,
Speaker 4: always smiling, and yet all the time I had a
Speaker 4: feeling that some terrible and golden mystery lay hidden just
Speaker 4: around the corner. A few days after I'd met kids mine,
Speaker 4: Percy remarked casually that unusually that had occurred, a man
Speaker 4: had escaped from the cage. Of course, I didn't know
Speaker 4: what he meant then, But the next morning I was
Speaker 4: walking with Percy's father on the grounds of the estate. Oh,
Speaker 4: mister Washington, Percy said something about a man escaping from
Speaker 4: the cage. I didn't quite get it.
Speaker 6: In the cage, eh, Well, perhaps you'd like to see it. Yes,
Speaker 6: it might prove interesting, just as a novelty. It's over here,
Speaker 6: these trees.
Speaker 3: They're sixty feet tall, and they have roses blooming all
Speaker 3: over them.
Speaker 6: It's a rather interesting development by a Swiss botanist. These
Speaker 6: are the only ones in the world.
Speaker 4: Oh, I suppose you'll see them all over the country
Speaker 4: in a few years.
Speaker 6: M No, No, these are the only ones that was arranged. Ah,
Speaker 6: here we are the cage.
Speaker 4: Why it's a pit dug in the ground and a
Speaker 4: greeting on time.
Speaker 7: Well, boys, how are you getting along?
Speaker 5: How?
Speaker 4: How many men are there down there?
Speaker 6: About fifties? I recall aviators. We've shut down wandering prospectors,
Speaker 6: many of that sort.
Speaker 4: But why are they kept there?
Speaker 6: Well, they've all had the common misfortune of having discovered
Speaker 6: El Dorado.
Speaker 7: Gentlemen, gentlemen, I am sure that you would like to
Speaker 7: know that your companion, who departed without my permission, has
Speaker 7: been taken care of. He was shot by some of
Speaker 7: my agents in fourteen different places.
Speaker 6: Golf, mister Hunger.
Speaker 4: They found him, then the man who got away.
Speaker 6: It will actually by places I meant towns. No, No,
Speaker 6: my agents were over eager. They shot fourteen men, but
Speaker 6: none of them could offer a positive identification. So I'm
Speaker 6: afraid the man I seek may still be at large.
Speaker 3: You see, mister Dronger.
Speaker 6: It's not all utopia here. Oh, we do have our difficulties.
Speaker 4: Isn't it a little unnecessary holding them like that?
Speaker 1: Not at all.
Speaker 6: It's the only way to keep this place hidden.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Or mister washington Er. Percy was telling me something
Speaker 4: on the train. I guess he was just kidding, but
Speaker 4: he said you had a diamond as big as the
Speaker 4: reds Carlton Hotel.
Speaker 8: Oh, yes, use indeed, as a matter of fact, it's
Speaker 8: much bigger than the Ritz, much bigger er.
Speaker 4: Well, summer went on, and I was more and more
Speaker 4: in love with Kimine. She too was priceless, exquisite, like
Speaker 4: no other girl in the world. After a couple of weeks,
Speaker 4: I'd kissed her, of course, and I was really in
Speaker 4: love for the first time. Yeah, I should have known.
Speaker 4: I should have put two and two together when Percy's
Speaker 4: father showed me the cage, but I didn't until one
Speaker 4: morning late in the summer I'd slipped off with kiss
Speaker 4: Mind to the Rose Gardens. Kiss Mine, I think we
Speaker 4: ought to Elope. I don't know.
Speaker 5: It would be much nicer to be married here, but
Speaker 5: then it would be much more romantic to Elope. All
Speaker 5: the Sunday supplements would write stories about it.
Speaker 4: Old kiss Mine, I knew in.
Speaker 5: Aires the MoMA ho Ones, But I don't think you'd
Speaker 5: like her. She visited my sister here.
Speaker 4: Oh you've had other guests then.
Speaker 5: Huh, well, yes, we've had a few.
Speaker 4: No, wasn't your father ever afraid they might talk outside.
Speaker 5: Well, to some extent, but let's talk about something more pleasant.
Speaker 4: What's unpleasant about it?
Speaker 5: I grew quite fond of some of them.
Speaker 4: 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 be
Speaker 5: a constant reproach to us, and father does it so nicely.
Speaker 5: They're always drugged in their sleep, and we tell their
Speaker 5: families they died of scarlet fever and butte, I'm not
Speaker 5: sure what effect that has on theistics.
Speaker 4: There of all the horrible No, it's not.
Speaker 5: After all, it would be terribly boring here without ever
Speaker 5: having anybody. Why father and mother have sacrificed some of
Speaker 5: therapist friends.
Speaker 4: That's what they plan to do with me.
Speaker 5: Then, see, now you're sort of depressed.
Speaker 3: I knew you would be.
Speaker 5: And we could have had such fun fun, couldn't you.
Speaker 5: Couldn't you try to forget it and be nice to
Speaker 5: me until you put away. It's only for two or
Speaker 5: three weeks.
Speaker 4: You'd go on this way, kissing and talking about love
Speaker 4: 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 corpse.
Speaker 4: That wasn't what I said. You did too, I did not,
Speaker 4: you said at.
Speaker 3: The moment, father, Oh kissed a corpse?
Speaker 5: No, Boddy, we were joking.
Speaker 6: No, you too, haven't any business here anyway, kis Mine,
Speaker 6: you go read, go play golf, and don't let me
Speaker 6: find you here when I come back.
Speaker 5: Yes, bothery, Yeah, well, good day children, you see nowing. No,
Speaker 5: you've spoiled at all. You don't really.
Speaker 4: Love me, kis mind you? Oh what's the use look
Speaker 4: kiss mine? Why would it be so terrible if anyone
Speaker 4: found out about this place?
Speaker 5: Why is that account of the diamond? Of course, But
Speaker 5: you'd better ask, Percy. I'm always getting things messed up.
Speaker 3: I will ask.
Speaker 4: And another thing I'm getting out of here tonight. If
Speaker 4: I have to dig through the mountains, I'm going back east.
Speaker 4: Take me with you, Hona.
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 4: Your father wouldn't permit it.
Speaker 5: If you won't take me, I'll go tell him I'm
Speaker 5: in love and want to marry you.
Speaker 4: You can't do that.
Speaker 3: He'd bump me off this afternoon.
Speaker 5: Please take me, darling, and we'll be terribly poor and
Speaker 5: very happy. And I'll cook things for you, herbs and
Speaker 5: berries and stuff. Won't that be fun?
Speaker 4: You will, won't you?
Speaker 5: John?
Speaker 4: Well, my head was really in a whirl. This whole
Speaker 4: thing was fantastic, and so was the family, even kids mine.
Speaker 4: I couldn't think of anything to do, but I rushed
Speaker 4: to see Percy.
Speaker 3: But John, why didn't you ask me before?
Speaker 4: Because I thought you were kidding all the time.
Speaker 3: I know you wouldn't have believed me if I had
Speaker 3: told you. I'm ready to believe anything now. Well, it
Speaker 3: was grandfather who started the whole thing, purely an accident.
Speaker 3: He came out here from Virginia and stumbled on it.
Speaker 3: Under what the diamond. Of course, Grandfather spent two years
Speaker 3: going around to different cities of the world selling bits
Speaker 3: of it, and then he started building this place. First
Speaker 3: he started putting his money in jewels, and then he
Speaker 3: found the radium took up much less space. Father's carried
Speaker 3: on since, you know, But why the secrecy. It just
Speaker 3: wouldn't do if anyone found out ruin the economy of
Speaker 3: the world. The thing's too big.
Speaker 4: This thing has been going on for three generations. The cage,
Speaker 4: this thing of inviting friends. Yes, you see there wasn't
Speaker 4: really any danger before airplanes there what worries? And you
Speaker 4: knew when you invited me here what would happen?
Speaker 3: Please, John, I thought you'd be more sensible about it.
Speaker 3: After all, you can see my position.
Speaker 4: Yeah, where is it? Where do you keep this diamond
Speaker 4: that's CAUs ocockeyed much trouble?
Speaker 3: I thought you'd guessed you've noticed the hill the chateau
Speaker 3: stands on. Oh yes, but it contains a cubic mile,
Speaker 3: and except for a thin covering of dirt, it's one big,
Speaker 3: solid diamond.
Speaker 4: It was nearly midnight. I didn't know what awakened me,
Speaker 4: but all of a sudden I was staring across the
Speaker 4: patches of moonlight, spotting the ermine carpet of my bedroom,
Speaker 4: staring at three slaves I had never seen before. They
Speaker 4: just slipped inside the door and stood there, each with
Speaker 4: a vicious length of shiny copper wire, the official executioners.
Speaker 4: I lay there on the bed, washing and counting heartbeats,
Speaker 4: not daring to move, not daring not to move. They
Speaker 4: didn't know I'd awakened. They began edging across the room.
Speaker 6: Come on, all three of you, there's no time now
Speaker 6: for this hurry.
Speaker 4: I took one long, deep breath, the first in several moments.
Speaker 4: Then I was out of the bed in an instant,
Speaker 4: throwing on my clothes and dashing through the long pistol
Speaker 4: corridor the Kismin's rope. Kiss mine, Are you awake over
Speaker 4: here by the window?
Speaker 5: So they woke you up too?
Speaker 4: If you mean three of your father's slaves?
Speaker 5: Oh? Airplane?
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 third clean way over there.
Speaker 4: You think they're here on purpose?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yes, they dropped warnings to father. It's that man who
Speaker 5: got away from the cage, you know.
Speaker 4: Good for him, Yes.
Speaker 5: Wasn't he clever? I think we'll open up on them
Speaker 5: many seconds.
Speaker 4: Now, open up, yes, our anti aircraft. Oh this is thrilling, thrilling.
Speaker 5: Oh look they're in range now, bravo, bravoes.
Speaker 3: Mind get away from that window.
Speaker 5: Good heavens, did you see that?
Speaker 4: Yes, And we've got to get out of here. Can't
Speaker 4: you understand? They'll bomb the chateau.
Speaker 5: Next to they're the little grove across on the side
Speaker 5: of the mountains. We always keep one of the cars there.
Speaker 5: We'll have a nice view of every a nice.
Speaker 3: View, kis mine.
Speaker 4: You don't seem to understand. They mean business. They're out
Speaker 4: to finish off you and your whole family.
Speaker 5: It all seems so silly. Why when you come right
Speaker 5: down to it, they've never even met us. Is it
Speaker 5: morning yet?
Speaker 4: John seems to be getting lighter.
Speaker 5: It's quieter too.
Speaker 4: It's your guns. They're knocked out, every last one of them.
Speaker 4: It won't belong now.
Speaker 5: Seems such a shame. The family puts so much work
Speaker 5: on the place. Everything's always been so pleasant.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you'd better get some sleep, kiss mine. I'm gonna
Speaker 4: walk down the path a little ways. You'll come back, yes,
Speaker 4: kis mine, I'll come back.
Speaker 3: At the edge of the wood.
Speaker 4: I stopped and looked out across the valley toward the
Speaker 4: wrecked chateau standing on its diamond hill in the center.
Speaker 4: The bombing had stopped. The planes droned over the far
Speaker 4: rim of the plateau, seeking some sort of formation, and then,
Speaker 4: on a small knoll just below me, three men appeared
Speaker 4: suddenly from the underbrush. The first one strode imperiously ahead,
Speaker 4: and the other two bore a heavy burden between them.
Speaker 4: It was mister Washington, and two of the slaves. All right,
Speaker 4: this is enough.
Speaker 9: We'll stop here now.
Speaker 4: The burden they held up to the heavens was an
Speaker 4: immense diamond. Now, and you up there, I could see
Speaker 4: no one else anywhere in view. You up there.
Speaker 10: I want you to understand, this is only a sample.
Speaker 10: I'll give you a thousand tut that's fine. Set in
Speaker 10: pedestals up pattum, and I'll build you a tower a
Speaker 10: thousand feet high, cast of solid gold. And on the
Speaker 10: tone of it, I have put one diamond a fing across.
Speaker 4: A thought began to dawn on me, but I couldn't believe.
Speaker 2: It is your name on.
Speaker 9: The temple in emeralds. And I'll see that the whole
Speaker 9: world worships at its base. All you have to do
Speaker 9: is to make everything the way it was before.
Speaker 4: Mister Washington was offering a bribe to God. He stopped talking,
Speaker 4: waiting for an answer, and then out of those same
Speaker 4: silent heavens blossomed the white puffs of parachutes. The man
Speaker 4: who tried to bribe God looked up and saw them
Speaker 4: became old in an instant, and, turning with lord head,
Speaker 4: walked down the path toward the chateau with sudden premonition,
Speaker 4: I whirled and headed for the spot where I left
Speaker 4: Kismie kiss Mine and the car that needed no roads.
Speaker 5: Haven't we gone far enough?
Speaker 3: John Die?
Speaker 4: I suppose we're ten miles from the chateau.
Speaker 5: It's also hectic, this rushing about and losing sleep.
Speaker 4: And everything hand made. Those field glasses.
Speaker 5: Here they are, Can you see anything?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: Oh, wait, what is it? It's your father and mother
Speaker 4: and Percy. They're going into a tunnel down below the chateau.
Speaker 5: Wait, I remember, now, the mountain's wired some kind of atom.
Speaker 4: Bomb, Adam, you mean atomic bomb?
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 5: Father always said it would disintegrate the whole works, diamond
Speaker 5: and all. Of course, he only regarded it as a
Speaker 5: last resort, so.
Speaker 4: He'd rather have it like that. They're all inside the
Speaker 4: tunnel now, the paratroopers are moving in.
Speaker 5: I don't suppose there's really anything to be done.
Speaker 3: About it now, and there wasn't.
Speaker 5: I keep thinking about things the way they were. It
Speaker 5: was all so pleasant. I don't suppose it will ever
Speaker 5: be exactly like that again, not.
Speaker 4: Ever, kids mine, And maybe it never was, you know.
Speaker 4: Youth is a time for dreaming, and dreams die too.
Speaker 5: I'll probably have to take in washing, but of course
Speaker 5: we'll be very happy.
Speaker 4: What will we do, John do.
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: We can love a while underneath the stars. That's a
Speaker 4: form of divine drunkenness. We can all try and then
Speaker 4: there may be other diamonds in the world. Who knows.
Speaker 4: And even though it's a shabby gift, there's always disillusion.
Speaker 4: Turn up your collar, kids, mind before you catch pneumonia.
Speaker 4: Let's go to sleep.
Speaker 2: Escape, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, has brought you
Speaker 2: Sam Edwards in the Diamond as Big as the Ritz
Speaker 2: by f Scott Fitzgerald. The radio adaptation was by Less Crutchfield,
Speaker 2: with editorial super VIASI by John Duncle. Featured in the
Speaker 2: cast were Nina cloudon Is Kismine and Hugh Thomas's Percy
Speaker 2: with John Dayner and Jack Krushan. The special musical score
Speaker 2: was conducted by Leith Stevens. One week from tonight at
Speaker 2: this same broadcast time, CBS will hail the return of
Speaker 2: the Adventures of Ozzy and Harriet, the Delightful Situation comedy show,
Speaker 2: which began its career on CBS four and a half
Speaker 2: years ago, as they take their plays among the stars
Speaker 2: on CBS's ten Great Sunday Night Shows. Ozzy and Harriet
Speaker 2: will celebrate their homecoming by presenting to their CBS audience
Speaker 2: their own sons, David and Ricky. So remember to be
Speaker 2: here next Sunday evening, April third, as Ozzy and Harriet
Speaker 2: return over most of these same CBS network stations at
Speaker 2: six point thirty Eastern Standard time. Now, stay tuned for
Speaker 2: the Jack Beni shit All, which follows immediately. This is
Speaker 2: Roy Rowan speaking. This is cb AS the Columbia Broadcasting
Speaker 2: System