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Ballyhoo done it? (A Summary)
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Reading the glowing tribute to Tomas Munrab in the circus program,
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one pictures the circus owner as being ambitous, flamboyant -- and a bit
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of a jerk. This, by itself, would not normally be motivation enough for
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a crime such as kidnapping. But Mr. Munrab's case was unique. Having
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taken on the hammerhead pressures of managing a travelling circus, he
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would react with half-baked marketing scemes, and fatefully,
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ill-tempered callousness tward the communitey of circus people with whom
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he held nothing in common.
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So behind the scenes the girl was snatched and you, a random lot loafer,
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are left with the fate of spending a strange night in a maddening shell
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game in which the innocent victim is be shuttled from one hiding
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place to next. Meanwhile you confront the very conspiritors among circus
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folk: Chuckles, a.k.a. Eddie Smaldone, the tramp clown earning tramp
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wages; Billy Monday, all smoothe talk and snake oil, the sultan of
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sleeze behing Munrab's back; Rimshaw, the marginal mesmerist, Svengali
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to an unwitting roustabout; Andrew, the guilty side of the hormonal
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nightmare Andrew Jenny; Herr Katzenjammer, the strong-arming animal
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trainer who plays host to the kid at home and at work.
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All you have to do is outwit your standard circus beasts while
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along the way befriending a midget Russian, a blind guard and the fat
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lady and you're well on your way to tracking down the stolen jewel of
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the evening: little Chelsea Munrab, a victim of the enmity between her
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father, a wayward graduate of Harvard Business School, and the nearly
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impenetrable society of vagabounds which make up the Travelling Circus
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That Time Forgot, Inc.
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