Gertie Gitana

Real name: Gertrude Mary Astbury
Born: December 27, 1887
Died: January 1957
Country: United Kingdom
Comments: Music hall entertainer. Gitana is Spanish for (female) 'Gipsy' and she was a member of Tomlinson's 'Royal Gipsy Children' at the age of four. On account of her petite form and supposed Gipsy origins, she was sometimes billed as 'The Staffordshire Cinderella'.