TY - SER
KW - German Americans
KW - amnesia
KW - immigrants
KW - silent movie theaters
KW - murder
AU - Aleen Leslie
AB - Ten-year-old Jane Carlyle is received into the bosom of the Webers, a large, German-American clan which owns and runs a dry goods store.  Jane has had amnesia since her hotel room in New York was sacked and her mother murdered, her father a suspect.
C1 - 1908
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Squirrel Hill; Downtown; E. Liberty; Oakland; Phipps Conservatory; Carnegie Museum; North Side; Braddock; W. Mifflin; Kennywood Park
C4 - Literary; Mystery; Detective; Children’s
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - Ten-year-old Jane Carlyle is received into the bosom of the Webers, a large, German-American clan which owns and runs a dry goods store.  Jane has had amnesia since her hotel room in New York was sacked and her mother murdered, her father a suspect.
PB - The Viking Press
PP - New York
PY - 1963
RN - Born Aleen Wetstein in Pittsburgh (1908-2010), she never finished Ohio State because of the Depression, yet wrote a popular 1930s column, “One Girl Chorus,” for the <em>The Pittsburgh Press</em> for a decade. When she developed <em>A Date with Judy</em>, it became a hit radio show in the 1940s. She married a Pittsburgh lawyer named Jacques Leslie and the two moved to California, where Aleen became one a few female screenwriters for Columbia Pictures. She started by writing <em>Three Stooges</em> scripts. One of her better, funnier screenplays is <em>Father Was a Fullback</em> (1949) starring Fred MacMurray. Aleen Leslie died at her Beverly Hills home just three days short of her 102nd birthday.
EP - 239 p.
TI - The Scent of the Roses
ER -