Mr. H. J. Ward

New Zealand Illustrated Magazine, Volume I, Issue 7, 1 April 1900, Page 563

Mr. H. J. Ward

It is not very often that a character actor of the calibre of Mr. H. J. Ward comos to Now Zealand. Young, earnest and hard working, Mr. Ward must have a good future before him, even though ho is now playing in pantomime at Sydney. With the Hoyt and McKce Company we Now Zoalanders only saw him in the character of an elderly man, but we witnessed enough to know that an excellent artist was strutting his fretful hour before us. In America Mr. Ward has met with constant success as a character actor, and wherever ho lias played lie hns received the highest praise for his undoubtedly painstaking work. In addition to his labours ns an actor, Mr. Ward sketches in black and white with remarkable fidelity, and when 1

Who played Bon Gay in " A Trip to Chinatown," mid Huron Sands in " A Stranger in Now York," and creates the purl. of Maverick JBrandcr in " A Texas Stcor." say that he is an adept afc putting pun to paper, I shall not be saying anything lokb than the truth. Mr. Ward is versatile, and he is clever. It is to be hoped that he will not return to America for some time.