ESCAPE "Diamond Big As Ritz"

Episode 51 aired on CBS Radio August 29, 1948. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is a novella by novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. John T. Unger is a sixteen-year-old boy from an affluent family in Hades, Mississippi on his way to St. Midas' preparatory school in Boston, the most exclusive and expensive prep school in the world. There, he hobnobs with the wealthy and meets another student named Percy Washington. Percy invites John to spend the Summer with his family "out West," and John, who loves being with the super-wealthy, agrees. On the train ride West, Percy reveals that his father is the richest man in the world. He has a diamond the size of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. John soon discovers that Percy is telling the truth.