I just saw Alice Guy's Serpentine Dance, in which a lion tamer abuses lions, so it was good to see the tables turned here. Also, it's an accomplishment to be a "rubber man" in the rubber hose animation era!

This doesn’t happen to viola players.

Even cats ignored Prohibition.

Justine seems to be linked to mythology of Diana - who's vowed never to marry, the goddess of domesticated spaces, who was spied upon while bathing, the goddess who guides people between death and life, linked to animals and the Moon (or other celestial bodies).