Ida: Searching for The Jazz Baby

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  • Who
  • is
  • Ida
  • Pender?
  • Is
  • she
  • the
  • elderly
  • woman
  • -
  • Ida-Spider
  • -
  • rumoured
  • to
  • be
  • resident
  • in
  • a
  • 1970's
  • Mental
  • Asylum?Is
  • she
  • Squizzy
  • Taylor's
  • teenaged
  • gangster
  • moll
  • of
  • the
  • roaring
  • 1920's
  • in
  • Melbourne?
  • The
  • woman
  • the
  • police
  • declared
  • had
  • shapely
  • legs?
  • She
  • is
  • Ida.
  • The
  • Jazz
  • Baby.Frank
  • Prem
  • explores
  • the
  • story
  • of
  • Ida
  • Pender,
  • largely
  • forgotten
  • now,
  • but
  • once
  • the
  • notorious
  • associate
  • of
  • a
  • 1920s
  • Melbourne
  • gnagster.
  • From
  • the
  • young
  • girl
  • sneaking
  • out
  • of
  • her
  • bedroom
  • window
  • to
  • go
  • dancing
  • at
  • the
  • Palais
  • de
  • Danse,
  • companion,
  • accomplice,
  • then
  • wife
  • and
  • mother
  • to
  • Squizzy
  • Taylor's
  • child
  • by
  • her
  • early
  • twenties,
  • Ida
  • is
  • an
  • extraordinary
  • woman
  • and
  • a
  • marvellous story.
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