Ella Snyder
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Ella Snyder was an American actress born on October 7 of an unrecorded year in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Active during the 1890s and 1900s, she built her career across the American vaudeville circuit and in theaters in both New York City and London.
Snyder entered the professional stage with a small role in the original Broadway production of Gustave Kerker's The Belle of New York at the Casino Theatre in 1897. When that production transferred to London's Shaftesbury Theatre, she traveled with it, appearing in the UK premiere in April 1898 as Marjorie May. By September of that year she had assumed the lead role of Mamie Clancy. Kerker composed new duets specifically for her to perform alongside actor Frank Lawton in the London run. A critic for the London American Register described her portrayal of Mamie Clancy, a character defined as a rowdy, good-hearted Pell Street girl, as the work of a capital actress who thoroughly realized the role, and further noted her intelligent face and capacity for quick changes in dramatic expression.
She remained with The Belle of New York when it returned to Broadway's Casino Theatre in January 1900, continuing in the role of Mamie Clancy. That same year she took on the role of Roxy Rocks in the original Casino Theatre production of The Casino Girl, and returned to the role of Laura Lee in its 1901 revival. Also at the Casino Theatre, she played the title role of Sleeping Beauty in The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast during the 1901–1902 run. Her final documented Broadway credit came in 1907, when she appeared as Dolly Wagner in Fascinating Flora, also staged at the Casino Theatre. Her Broadway career spanned from 1900 to 1907 and included The Talk of New York among its credits.
Snyder made several additional appearances in London during this period. From April through June 1900 she was at the Shaftesbury Theatre as Dottie Muffett in Kerker's An American Beauty, and shortly afterward she starred opposite Richard Carle at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in A Condensed Comic Opera. She returned to the Shaftesbury Theatre from November 1900 through January 1901 to play Roxy Rocks in the London production of The Casino Girl. In 1902 she created the role of Mary Methuen in the original production of The Girl from Kays at London's Apollo Theatre.
Two photographs of Snyder are held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London.
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