During her strained and embarrassing performance, Sgt.Bruce entered the saloon.She caught his attention as she struggled to acquire an audience.Knowing that she had failed and had been humiliated, Marie left the saloon in shame.Marie's First Encounter with Mountie Sgt.Bruce:The Mountie followed her out into the night air, and approached to offer her a compliment: "I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed your singing.)Lily: Darling! (excitedly, she rises and kisses him, flinging herself into his arms) Oh now, darling.It is the first step in her own romantic downfall: "I wonder if my tie's on straight.I certainly upset them, don't I? Now who else is after me? Ah, the lady champion wrestler, wouldn't she make a houseful.To harvest Syrena's tears, the pirate suggested torture to force her to cry from pain.Seeing that Philip fancied Syrena, he commanded his Quarter Master to kill Philip - to cause Syrena to cry, but the plan failed.Claudette Colbert had previously starred in DeMille's historical epicThe Sign of the Cross (1932)as the depraved emperor Nero's lascivious, vixenish wife Poppaea.