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Crosman

HENRIETTA, an American actress. Born in West Virginia in 1870, she first went on the stage when nineteen years of age, playing in Campbell's "White Slave." From 1892-1894 she was Charles Frohman's leading lady.

In 1900 she began her career as a star in a play entitled "One of Our Girls."

In the same year she brought out "Mistress Nell" at the Bijou Theatre in New York. In 1911 she took the rôle of Jess Loraine in the play "The Real Thing," playing later many other important rôles in New York and in other parts of the United States.

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