She also tapped a thick layer of sand off a large slice of bread, and compulsively wiped her hands with a sandy handkerchief, as Lige offered her a platter of primitive frontier food ("Kin I help you to sow-belly and grits, Miss Mason?").Hastings is surprised to see the visitor - they haven""t had a visitor in four years: "Nobody told me he train was stopping.The star of director Lloyd Bacon""s backstage, behind-the-scenes show-business musical was James Cagney in his first on-screen singing-and-dancing musical role.They had expected to take a different path to their teacher""s place, but were somehow directed to take a different way:We must""ve takenthe wrong forka few miles back." Because it""s "stuffy" in the house, she invites him to a "picnic" in a provocative,double-entendreladen conversation, linked to him by drinking out of the same glass:Alicia: It""s too stuffy in here for a picnic.