zero was incorrigible and he decided to make a victim of this young man that night. and during the scene, when the young man was playing a soldier in the army of miles gloriosus, zero stopped the action of the scene and went to work on him making faces and dancing around him and posturing and clowning till the poor young man was almost reduced to tears in his effort to keep a straight face, because in the professional theater, it's considered very bad form, indeed, to break up or laugh onstage. finally, the scene came to an end, but a couple of scenes later, this young man who, as a member of the chorus, was called upon to play several parts, came back on the stage playing a different character. zero again stopped the action of the scene, went over to him, stood in front of him, put his face about three inches from the young man's face, stared at him for what seemed an eternity and finally said, "say, don't you have a brother in the army?" now, i mentioned this incident because it illustrates very graphically the kind of thing that happened throughout the play in the