..?" [The snake is a potent sexual symbol, although it has a female name.] After being assured that Emma hadn""t followed them down into the room, she invites him to accompany her to a chaise lounge.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.She drew a red stick-figure of herself (labeled Alice) in the front of the dilapidated house.She deeply concentrated and then entered the dream world to accompany Mark and attempt o protect him.Looking handsome in a fancy suit, he comes down the stairway of his place, and when he reaches the threshold of the door, she opens it for him.The film set in motion the Puritanical, psycho-pathological principle that one""s survival was directly proportional to one""s sexual experience.