Biography
Vesta Tilley
Real name: Matilda Alice Powles
Effective period / Period of releases: 1915
English music hall performer who adopted, at age 11, the stage name Vesta Tilley and who became one of the most famous male impersonators of her era. She was a star in both Britain and the United States for over thirty years.13 May 1864 – 16 September 1952