LAURA

KEENE (c. 1820-1873)  , Anglo-American actress and manager, whose real name was Mary Moss, was born in England . In 1851, in London, she was playing Pauline in The Lady of Lyons . She made her first appearance in New York on the loth of September 1852, on her way to Australia . She returned in 1855 and till 1863 managed Laura Keene's theatre, in which was produced, in 1858, Our American Cousin . It was her company that was playing at Ford's theatre, Washington, on the night of Lincoln's assassination . Miss Keene was a successful melodramatic actress, and an admirable manager . She died at Montclair, New Jersey, on the 4th of November 1873 . See John Creahan's Life of Laura Keene (1897) .