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"'Marvelous !" exhibitors exclaim. "The next Baby Peggy!" "Cocky little thing!" Freckled-faced, fat-cheeked, pugnosed, but with eyes that sparkle, and chubby hands that seem almost to talk in their expressiveness, Mary Ann Jackson, at the age of three, is an enthusiastic little trouper and is winning a world of applause. The grown-up stars adore her. When Mary's sister, "Peaches" Jackson, widely known to screen fans, was playing with Tommy Meighan in "The Pied Piper of Malone." Mary, a babe in arms then, used to be brought to the studio by her mother, and received as much attention as Peaches. Later, when she was big enough to walk, her mother took her one day onto a set at Sennett's, and Eddie Cline, the director, saw her. That settled it. She went into films — into Sennett comedies.
"Her nerve astounds me." says Mrs. Jackson, the child's mother. "In her very first picture, Mary had to crawl from a rocking cradle in a flooded house, along a plank extended from a window, over a swimming pool, to safety. She was then barely two years old. When she was halfway along the plank, she looked at me and said, 'I'm 'fraid !'
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