Background
Ward was born in Aston (now part of Birmingham), Warwickshire, England, on 26 April 1890, to Edwin Ward and Eliza (née Millichamp).
Ward was born in Aston (now part of Birmingham), Warwickshire, England, on 26 April 1890, to Edwin Ward and Eliza (née Millichamp).
She made her stage debut at the Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham in 1905, playing Zenobia in Bluebeard. She appeared as a "castaway" on the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 23 December 1954. Their son was the actor and director Peter Glenville.
Music Hall historian West. Macqueen-Pope called her:
a handsome and striking woman, with auburn hair, wonderful carriage and fine figure.
Tights become her, they are second nature to her and she understands pantomime and its topsy turviness. To see her as "Jack" in Jack and the Beanstalk defy the giant outside his castle, wearing shining armour and then join in mortal combat with him in his own kitchen, clad in trailing clouds of gauze and silk, is to witness true pantomime.. left the halls plenty of fine songs.