Neptune was a lame Santa Claus with cotton whiskers.
But as for the bearing of the film on this chapter: the human figure is within its rights whenever it is as free from self-consciousness as was the life-radiating Annette in the heavenly clear waters of Bermuda.

On the other hand, Neptune and his pasteboard diadem and wooden-pointed pitchfork, should have put on his dressing-gown and retired.

As a toe dancer in an alleged court scene, on land, Annette was a mere simperer.
Possibly Pavlowa as a swimmer in Bermuda waters would have been as much of a mistake.

Each queen to her kingdom.
For living, moving sculpture, the human eye requires a costume and a part in unity with the meaning of that particular figure.

There is the Greek dress of Mordkin in the arrow dance.