ALBERT

See also:

• ALBERT CHEVALIER (1861– )
• CHEVALIER, MICHEL (1806-1879)
• CHEVALIER, ULYSSE (1841– )

CHEVALIER (1861– )  , English comedian, began a connexion with the stage while still a child . In 1877 he was engaged as an actor under the Bancrofts in London, and for some years played " legitimate " parts at the Court theatre and elsewhere . In 1891, however, he began a successful music-hall career as a singer of coster songs of his own invention, a new type in which he had an immediate success, both in England and America . He subsequently organized an entertainment of his own, with sketches and songs, with which he went on tour, establishing a wide popularity as an original artist in his special line .