WARD, DAME GENEVIEVE 22) (D.B.E., 1921), English actress, was born in New York on March 27, 1837, and at the age of 18 married Count Constantine de Guerbel. She studied singing in Italy and in Paris, and made her first ap pearance under the stage name of Ginevra Buerrabella at Bergamo in the opera Stella di Napoli (1855). After the loss of her voice
in 1862 she taught singing in New York, but in 1873 she came to London and began a long dramatic career, appearing first at Manchester as Lady Macbeth.
She published with Richard Whiting a volume of reminiscences, Before and Behind the Curtain (1918).