 The dictionary of chimpanzee language Cinderella did not wear a glass slipper across of gold brings disaster to many men Can you imagine that yes ladies and gentlemen? This is Lindsay McCurry speaking I'm back with my charts and another collection of odd and sensational facts with which to regale you for a while in just one Minute and a half. We'll all be back with the proof the statements made a moment ago. So wait for us. Will you please? That's a strange noise isn't it but don't be alarmed No one here has suddenly gone to chasing imaginary dinosaur is around the studio what you heard was Charles Fuller saying he's glad to see us And who is Charles Fuller? Well, according to a newspaper of March 6, 1915 Charles Fuller was a chimpanzee who could talk so that his owner E. W. Nolton of Pasadena, California could understand him Can you imagine that said mr. Nolton when interviewed I have lately been making a dictionary of the words I found fuller uses is so far I have found six distinct words and no doubt there are others but these six I have identified Positively each one is said on precisely the same sort of occasion I think this proves that monkeys of the higher orders can converse among themselves That they can think is already proved Listen for yourself Mm-hmm That means he's hungry. He wants something to eat and that wasn't all Charles Fuller would say here are a couple more of the phrases in his vocabulary That according to mr. Nolton meant I am afraid and then In chimpanzees that is go away and don't bother me We have mr. Nolton's word that Charles Fuller could so untie knots and untwist a swing when the rope got tangled up But other chimps have done that before what made Charles Fuller unique was the fact that his vocabulary could be understood by his owner Can you imagine that? Well now comes the time for our fairy tale class today's story is that of Cinderella and the fur slipper pardon teacher glass slipper Huh fur slipper glass it's still fur and I'll prove it for you glass So I'd sit in the corner and I'll explain you see the story of Cinderella is of French origin When the translator took the story and began his work of translation He made a very odd but still a natural mistake for anyone not working in his native language in the original French version The slipper is referred to as pantouflon ver meaning a slipper made of fur VA IR is the French word for fur The translator was more familiar with the actual sound of the word there than he was with its meaning He wrote the word down as VEE double RE meaning glass So we today because of a translator's odd mistake know the pretty little fairy tale as Cinderella and the glass slipper instead of Cinderella and the fur slipper. Can you imagine that? Well, there are countless stories about the evil that follows famous jewels about the bad luck They bring to each successive owner the hope diamond for instance Well that has a history crowded with deaths of tragic episodes in the lives of its owners along that line I dug up a story that has all the character of melodramatic fiction with the added punch of being true From a newspaper dated July 8 1929 comes an item saying that the curse of the cross has been set at rest The cross is really the Mount of the Holy Cross that nestles in the heart of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and the curse Well, listen to this in 1873 members of the Hayden Geological Survey Party were exploring in that particular region of the Rockies as they went on They became more and more odd by the grim grandeur of the scene before them and then suddenly wait wait down there Look Look at that just look at why a mountain must be over 10,000 feet easily But that isn't what I mean. Look at the side of it that cross. Yes I see it why it runs the entire length of the mountain The stem must be a crevice and across piece up near the top is another crevice just imagine a gigantic cross over 10,000 feet high why wait look here is the foot of the cross What does this look like? look like Why it's Gold this is this is literally a cross of gold The geologists stood at the foot of the great cross odd by its mighty size Perhaps they felt something of the intangible majesty of the unknown as they gazed at this masterpiece of nature They reported the discovery of the mountain and also of the gold to be found there then in 1879 two prospectors named Farley and Smith take out a claim at the foot of the cross Say this place has got enough gold in it to set us up for life and then some look at it I've been a wondering about the stories we hear about this place some folks say it's Sacred or something like that. Sure. I hear them too, but gold ain't sacred and there's play of it here for the takin Oh, come on now pitch in give me a hand. We'll clear the rubble away and then start digging in earnest Why this whole cross is filled with gold come on But did they get a chance to get the gold out? Suddenly Smith and Farley fail ill of a mysterious melody which the doctor could not diagnose Unable to work their claim the prospectors hired two men Johnson and Olson to dig the claim for them Then one day the two hired men were out on a little lake rowing Both men were drowned in the sudden squall that overturned their tiny boat Farley and Smith went back to working their claim back to the business of taking the precious ore from the cross of gold on the mountain side Then one day while they were at their cabin. How much we get out today Farley What are you watching out the window? I don't know thought I saw something moving in the brush over there Farley was killed Smith escaped and went to Australia Even going to another country didn't save him from the weird curse of doom that hung over him Or he was killed in a mine explosion in succeeding years the cross brought tragedy disaster or death to every man who scarred his sides in Search of gold then on July 8 1929 the Mount of the Holy Cross in Colorado was made a national monument of the United States The glittering yellow metal lies in the cross protected from men or perhaps men are protected from it. Who knows? And now for the musical portion of this can you imagine that I wonder how many of you remember that famous old song under the bamboo tree? Of course you do it's an exceedingly hard song to forget once you hear its catchy tune the lively sparkling lyrics and the Toe tingling swing of its rhythm, but if you remember the song I wonder if you remember the story of how it was written just in case you don't here it is It was written you may recall by two gifted Negroes Bob Cole and Rosamond Johnson, but how well it seems that Cole and Johnson We're walking uptown one evening in New York Johnson was humming as Bob Cole turned to him and spoke Rosamond, you know, that's the song we need for our new act Nobody knows the trouble I see. Oh, no, you don't Bob We're not gonna desecrate a sacred song that way. We simply can't use it now I reacted it's more than just a song to me Bob somehow it typifies our whole rage Oh, I know that but listen to me you went to the Boston Conservatory didn't you? Well, what's that got to do with a new song for a whole lot? Well, you should be able to take that song and change the melody a little and set the rhythm up a little and Have a new song I'll try it. Yep. I'll try it good Inspired by the grand old spiritual Rosamond Johnson set to work on the melody for a new song Finally finished it. Its first title was a few lack of me But when Cole and Johnson presented it to a music publisher It was suggested that the title be changed to under the bamboo tree Then the two sang it for Miss Marie Cahill who liked it instantly But when she insisted that it be incorporated into the show Nancy Brown Another snag was hit for said the composer of Nancy Brown. What put that in my show never never Let have my score ruined by that that well I refused to call it a song but the lively Miss Cahill who knew a hit when she heard it Calmly put her dainty foot down and said the song went in or she went out The song went in and so out of the past out of a race in whom music and love of it Is born came under the bamboo tree In the jungles lived a maid of royal blood though dusky shade A marked impression once she made Apollo Zulu from Matta Bulu And every morning in what he had and gently squeezed Time to turn you back to your own announcer and until we get together again for another session of can you imagine that? This is Lindsay McCurry saying goodbye now