Next he was private secretary to Sir James Mills KCMG, managing director of the Union Steamship Line,[1] in which capacity Ward came to Sydney around 1912, and remained in Australia, taking whatever acting part he could land.
[7] In May 1914 Ward and G. Kay Souper[a] opened a Dramatic Academy, at Penzance Chambers, Elizabeth Street, Sydney.
[9] Dubbed "the only bijou theatre in Sydney",[5] in May 1915 it became the clubrooms for the Arts and Dramatic Club, founded by Ward.
[15] In March 1916 Ward leased the Little Theatre, where he first produced Julia Seton's polemical New Thought play, The Victory.
[16] Pinero's The Second Mrs Tanqueray followed, starring Eily Malyon as Paula and Esther Mitchell as Ellean, to great acclaim.
[23] For three years he edited Everyone's, a weekly devoted to the entertainment industry, and in 1927 acted as publicity manager for Eva Novak, who was making a picture The Romance of Runnibede in Queensland, then he accepted the position of publicity director for Cinema Art Films Limited, which had dealings with Hoyt's Theatres Limited.
[31] Enigmatically described as "general necromancer, soothsayer, and eccentric dancer", she danced and sang in at least one production of Alfred Hill's The Rajah of Shivapore.