Show VI Rejected Mice I d Ezio Pi Pinza iL if t ow King of M-G-M M Lot t X J By Er Erskine Johnson John on oneLL HOLLYWOOD eLL OLLY WOOD Y Behind t the h e ey y teen een en Ezio Pinza the dr dream am boy boythe boythe lithe the Natures after for after for you you- b lIed backwards a c J k kv v war a r d s set was ped in a crowded room ile Jimmy McHugh J played Chanted Evening ening from South rafic fic on a baby grand tests is jammed into Dorothy Kiris Kiri's Kir- Kir JM'S is i's 5 living room and spilled out her garden as a welcome-to- welcome party for the year 58 basso who will have Lana irner er c chasing h has a s i in n go g after him in Ms M's Ms M's Mr Imperium Bored in a crowded room I to him as all guests bd d to shake hands with him at same bame same time 1 ere was a wild I hate parties l look in his eyes as he heI I plied Sometimes i Pinza tried to land an M G tract The studio t six years ago test and d said d No o t thanks s. s I IThen Then he sailed into South Pacific I and proved he was a R. Gable in inI I basso disguise After M-G-M M M G a Leo Leothe Leothe Leothe the Lion got ot through h blushing the studio admitted its mistake and signed him up G Ms Mr r. r Imperium will have Lana Turner playing a western western west- west i ern band singer who falls in love with a a. king king- Ezio Pinza but I hell he'll be sharing the honors with witha a mule Lanas Lana's No 1 song song- will willbe willbe willbe be My Love and My Mule ulc Despite his 1115 21 years with the Met and his South Pacific hit Pinza's greatest ambition has been to be a movie star He told me meI I am a big ham Lots of people can sing But it is the personality that counts I I knew it would some day hap- hap J t pen It was fate I Don Hartmann who wrote and will direct Imperium says positively positively pos pos- itI cly there will be no mention of South Pacific in the film F haa ha a y f r Faux yr a x r Fr Frt t V r f Iv A iM y y r. r n nEzio Ezio Pinza was once rebuffed by M-G-M M after a screen test Then came South Pacific and now Mr Pinza is s king of their film lot I |