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...downstairs maid and cook on the cook's night out-in the big green house set back from the street by a lawn. Although their names might suggest otherwise, North and South Fifth-one a white street, the other Negro-converge at no point in the town of Laurel, Miss. But in the person of a local girl who "went over the water to sing." they converged this winter on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House...
...voice in Big Auntie's phonograph belongs to one of the world's great singers: her niece, Leontyne Price. When Laurel-born Soprano Price. 34, made her Metropolitan debut last month, she faced, in the audience, a score of Laurel friends and relatives from both Fifth Avenues and from the sleepy streets in between. Her triumph monopolized the front page of the Laurel Leader-Call ("She reaches the pinnacle") and for a time, even crowded out the achievements of that other local Negro hero, Olympic Broad Jumper Ralph Boston. Laurel knew about Leontyne before Rudolf Bing ever heard...
Whipped, with Love. Much of the joy, according to Leontyne's mother Kate, derives from the fact that Kate was singing hymns in the choir of St. Paul's Methodist Church in Laurel, back in 1927, when she felt the first pangs signaling the impending birth of Mary Leontyne Violet Price-a first child after 13 years of barrenness. Her father James, an erect, dignified, sparrow-thin man. now 79, worked in the local sawmills (Laurel used to call itself the Yellow Pine Capital of the World before the woods gave out). Kate Price, an iron-willed woman...
...York Critics Poll selected Miss Fonda as the "Most Promising Actress" of the 1960 season. Last year she was awarded the "Laurel Award for the Year's Most Promising Screen Debut" for her performance in Tall Story...
...also appear in Aïda, Butterfly, Turandot and Don Giovanni. On hand to see her debut last week were many friends and neighbors from Mississippi, who remember Leontyne as the little girl who used to play the piano at local funerals. Among the Mississippi visitors: the Chisholms of Laurel, for whom Leontyne's aunt worked as a maid, and who sent her to music school...