Cirrus@Austlit

'"The Grey Glove", an Australian production released by J.C. Williamson Films features the charming and talented Miss Lassau. This is Miss Lassau's first appearance upon the screen and her acting is all that could be desired. She portrays a young society girl who, in her spare moments, is a detective. It is through her efforts that a notorious criminal known in the world as the "Grey Glove" is captured.'

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'Paramount To-night', Townsville Daily Bulletin, 30 May 1929, p.10.

After being disowned by his wealthy father following a raucous party, Jack Maxwell goes to work at a mill in the North Coast timber district owned by his friend Dick Desmond. WHile there he falls in love with Betty Manning, the daughter of the widow who cooks for the workers, and clashes with Steve Black, the ganger of the mill who is behind a spate of timber robberies. He is also in love with Betty. When a sundowner arrives in camp and shoots Steve in revenge for seducing the sundowner's wife years ago, he reveals that Steve has been blackmailing Dick's father. Jack also saves the mill from a robbery and is offered a partnership from Desmond.

'The picture, which is produced by Dunstan Webb, is a creditable story, and is ably retold by an efficient producer and a clever company of actors. The story briefly deals with a young Australian jockey, who is disgraced. Gradually the bright lights claim him, and eventually he reaches the gutter, later on to become regenerated through the influence of a good woman, The gay life of Sydney is authentically produced, and swell locations as the Ambassadors, several Sydney cabarets, and prominent racing stitbles figure in the background.'

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'Elite Theatre', Brisbane Courier, 2 January 1925, p.7 (via Trove Australia).

The secret history of a Sydney society man (who believes that, in his past work as a pearler on Thursday Island, he killed a man in a drunken brawl) leaves him vulnerable to the blackmailing activities of an old drinking buddy, and leaves his daughter vulnerable to the blackmailer's advances.