My Giddy Aunt and Other Sister Comedians

Whip-smart and fabulously funny, the women of vaudeville entertained Australia and challenged ideas of how women should behave.

Opening a forgotten case of photographs, Sharon Connolly begins a search for the great aunt she never knew. Gladys Shaw was a whistling comedian, a singer and saxophonist, an eccentric dancer and a whip cracker - one of the ''girls'' who once made Australia laugh. They wer...