Emma Dunning Banks

Emma Dunning Banks (stage name Dorothy Crane; 1856–1931)[1] was an American actress, dramatic reader, teacher, and writer.

[2] Banks graduated from the National School of Elocution and Oratory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

[4] Her notable performances included the "Curse Scene" from Leah the Forsaken and the Malediction of Medea.

In 1904, in the Bridgeport Opera House, she produced two of W. S. Gilbert's most successful comedies, Engaged and Pygmalion and Galatea, which the press praised.

[6] Banks was at her New York City address on Saturdays but otherwise made her home in Bridgeport, Connecticut,[7] where she died April 8, 1931.