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ALBERT CHEVALIER (1861– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 113 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALBERT CHEVALIER (1861– )  ,
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English comedian, began a connexion with the stage while still a child . In 1877 he was engaged as an actor under the Bancrofts in
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London, and for some years played " legitimate " parts at the Court theatre and elsewhere . In 1891, however, he began a successful
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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
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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
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original artist in his
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special
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line .

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