Emily Bancker

[1] By 1882 she was playing a juvenile role with comedian Gus Williams in the comedy One of the Finest [2] and two years later in Le Pave de Paris.

She was a member of Rosina Vokes’s company that opened at Daly’s Theatre on April 13, 1891, in productions of A Game of Cards, Wig and Gown, and The Rough Diamond.

Bancker’s final appearance in New York City was in the play Our Flat, staged at the Murray Hill Theatre on April 3, 1897.

[5] She had over the mid-1890s achieved great success touring North America with own company in Mrs. Musgrove’s farce-comedy Our Flat, originally produced in 1889 in London and New York.

[7][8] A few days later Emily Bancker fell ill while visiting an aunt in Albany, N.Y., and as her condition worsened she was rushed to the local hospital, where she died on June 5, 1897, after a failed operation.