O. O. McIntyre // Joel, the restaurant man, has written another book. In the world of letters, Joel is Joel Rinaldo, but to theatrical troupers who send him money on tour to keep he is just Joel. His gay food and dancing laboratory is hard by the Metropolitan where a serpentine electric sign chases the shadows. Joel’s latest treatise is called, “Psychoanalysis of the Reformer.”
In that speeding, dimly-defined half world of the restaurant, theatre and lighted streets, Joel has studied the performer. He proves some of his theories by Freud, Jelliffe, Kempf and Jung. Summed up in a Joel’s volume the former is afflicted with “Meddling Hysteria.”
However Joel’s high-brow books will never have the sale of his Mexican chili con carne. It is a quaint place he runs-a backwash of the bizarre cafes in Paris. There is a singing harpist and mad violinist and about the walls are pictures of stage stars and writers with loving messages to Joel. Still another room is given over to original cartoons, each one inscribed with a ringing foreword for Joel by the artist.
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