The Diamond by The Ritz is a novel by novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in the June 1922 edition of The Smart Set magazine, and was included in Fitzgerald's short story collection in 1922 Tales of the Jazz Age . Much of the story is set in Montana, a setting probably inspired by the summer that Fitzgerald spent near White Sulfur Springs, Montana in 1915.
Orson Welles adapted the story into a radio drama in 1945 and another version presented three times in the Escape program between 1947 and 1949.
The teleplay version was broadcast at Kraft Theater in 1955. Sister of the story, Kismine and Jasmine, played by Lee Remick and Elizabeth Montgomery, unknown 20 and 22 at the time.
Mickey Mouse No. 47 (April/May 1956) contains a retelling of Fitzgerald's story with the title "The Mystery of the Diamond Mountain", written by William F. Nolan and Charles Beaumont and illustrated by Paul Murry.
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Ringkasan plot
John T. Unger, a teenager from the Hades River town in Mississippi, was sent to a private boarding school near Boston. During the summer he visited the homes of his classmates, most of whom came from wealthy families.
In the second half of the year, a young man named Percy Washington was stationed in the Unger dorm. He rarely talks, and when he does, it's just for Unger. Percy invited Unger to his home for the summer, a location he only claims to be "in the West." Unger accepts.
During a train trip Percy boasts that his father "is by far the richest man in the world", and boasts that his father "has a diamond that is bigger than the Ritz-Carlton Hotel."
Unger later learned that he was in Montana, on "only five square miles of land in a country that has not been surveyed," and Percy's offer was correct.
Percy's ancestral line traces back to George Washington and Lord Baltimore. His grandfather, Fitz-Norman Culpepper Washington, decided to leave Virginia and go west with his slaves to enter the sheep and livestock breeding business. However, on his claim he discovered not only a diamond mine, but a mountain consisting of one solid diamond.
Washington soon found himself in confusion; the diamond value multiplied by the amount available to him to mine would make him the richest person who ever lived, but, under the laws of economic supply, the number of diamonds, if ever discovered by outsiders, would push their value near zero, making it impoverished.
He immediately hatch the plan, where his brother read to proclaimed African-American slaves by General Nathan Bedford Forrest that South had defeated the North in the American Civil War, thus preserving them in eternal slavery. Washington travels around the world just by selling some diamonds at once, in order to avoid flooding the market, but enough to give him great wealth.
The Washington family went to a horrible length to keep their diamonds a secret. People who deviate to the area are shot down, arrested, and kept in a dungeon. Those who visited were murdered and their parents said they had succumbed to the disease while living there.
John fell in love with Percy's sister, Kismine, who inadvertently let slip that John would also be killed before he was allowed to leave. That night, the plane launched an attack on the property, told by an escapisted Italian teacher. Percy's father offered a bribe to God, "the greatest diamond in the world," but God refused. John, Kismine, and Jasmine, another sister, fled while Percy and his mother and father chose to blow up the mountain instead of leaving it in the hands of others. Without money, the three remaining victims are left to reflect on their fate.
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See also
- The Twenty-One Balloons
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External links
- Streaming audio files
- The diamond of Ritz at It's Best: April 3, 1945
- Diamond Ritz in Escape: July 21, 1947
- The Diamond by The Ritz in Escape: August 29, 1948
- The Diamond by The Ritz in Escape: March 27, 1949
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