Mary Janes Pa (Warner Bros.) (1935)

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3-SHEET PRICES 1-SHEETS eteO LO ot 50 to 99 100 and over te HELE TS cs 40c each 36c each 11 x 14 Photos and over WINDOW CARDS 1 each 50 each 5'4%c each These Prices Apply to the U. S. Only Sam Preston (Guy Kibbee), an itinerant printer, is publishing a small town newspaper with the aid of Ellen Preston (Aline MacMahon), his wife. The shriek of a freight train locomotive is all Sam needs to stir up the wanderlust in his soul. He pins a parting note to his hand press and leaves some utility bonds to care for her and their two children, Mary Jane, (Betty Jean Haney) and Lucille (Nan Gray), five. Eleven years elapse and we find Sam in Shanghai, China, working The anaemic peep locomotive an infant, on a paper. of the Chinese whistles drives him to return to the States but a search of the town in which he left his little family fails to reveal Ellen and the children. Ellen has moved on to another town but is still conducting a print shop and getting out the local paper. She has become enamored of Kenneth Marvin (Minor Watson), candidate for the legislature and is helping his 1M to 4M ____. 5M and over 22: x 28 Photos __ Slides Stills Midget Window Cards 4c each Campaign Plans INSERT CARDS ee HERALDS __..$3.00 per M LOBBY DISPLAYS (8 in set—colored) _80c -a set (2 in set—colored) each each His opponent in the campaign, John Wagner (Robert MeWade) is the local banker. Lucille, sixteen, is in love with John Wagner’s son, King (Tom Brown). Sam, not finding a trace of his family, joins a traveling Carnival Company as a barker. One night a little girl lingers in front of his concession and he begins to talk to her. She gets lost. Sam finds her and takes her home atop an elephant. She invites him into the house where they take possession of the kitchen and he cooks a “QOneEyed Egyptian Sandwich” for her. The little girl is Mary Jane, now eleven years old. Ellen returns home to find Sam in the kitchen with Mary Jane. He learns that the bonds he left for her were worthless and she had had a hard struggle. He pleads to stay and she finally consents. He learns through Line Overman (Johnny Arledge) and Fred (Robert Light) both of whom work for Ellen, that Kenneth Marvin is on the payroll of the trust. Ellen confronts Marvin with campaign in her paper. OFFICIAL BILLING ALINE MacMAHON 75% with : GUY KIBBEE 75% in MARY JANE’S PA 100% Directed by William Keighley 20% A First National 40% R Productions Corporation 5% 25% Picture Apo oe we” the evidence and informs him she is going to publish the story. Marvin sends a band of thugs to the newspaper office and they wreck the press. Sam eatches Lucille and King about to elope and talks them out of it. He returns to the newspaper office to find Ellen frantic over the work of Marvin’s thugs. In the corner, loaded with dust, he sees, his old hand press. He starts to get out the paper but the police arrive to arrest him for stealing the Marvin evidence. He squares this and has the officers help him with the paper. He has become indispensible to Ellen. WINDOW CARD, MIDGET WINDOW CARD 6-SHEET SLIDE 1-SHEET (left) INSERT CARD (right) LS Sp ye En RGN PSR A! ce ae Aline MacMahon OMI PF NROg ie jg ee se SORES BAIS Guy Kibbee King Waenen co iy eg i Siohipa ae aaethalla ali Tom Brown John Wagner... Dine Ee ea eee lc __Robert McWade PORTE Or Rite Pe CS OE Ta Weng gies ely Minor Watson LEE Al ele ee ate Dae eat ee iGO. 8 eS Nan Gray Ting OUeiRIGk. Oe ee ee et Johnny Arledge ee cat la ee ee io as ice 3 hh OTE. ane Mary tlanevice Se 54. Te on! bogey eyo Betty Jean Haney | 222 LA ena, ERE aes REO SOR: Fe Nh ALSPY dc ERRED ONT 1 wea _ Oscar Apfel PTR Dea UNS (oe SNE Ee a ad A DeWitt Jennings Darectene Oy 0 A mperegn. Flgy’ Oy. x Based on Play “Mary Janes Pa” by__...Edith Ellis Furness and the novel version of play by-_...........-----------Norman Way Ppa ae SoS yakioiie eve! 2 et neh alles 9 Ernest Haller Film 2 Barer ono et es oo tah ey et Clarence Kolster BSE, PICU LOl cd _........Leo F. Forbstein LENGTH . . 6510 feet RUNNING TIME .. 71 minutes PRINTED IN U.S. A.