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and in London there are few who are not more or less guilty of it. If one medium of music-hall expression in England were to be taken as the most characteristic type, it would probably be the song containing at regular intervals a word most obviously riming with some other word impossible to speak in decent company, and having some totally different, harmless, and non-riming word shoved in the place of the naughty one.

Chevalier, in late years, has lost much of his grip upon the British public. They assign it to his long absences from home. In my opinion, there is another reason he is too clean for them. Vesta Victoria is another of the rare exceptions to the general tendency toward vulgarity.

Left - Caption reads: Albert Chevalier, Actor, Music-Hall Singer, and Entertainer, whose 'Coster Songs' are famous in England and America. From a photograph by the Rotary Photograph Company, London.

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