Joe J. Vanringham, Tubby's brother in Summer Moonshine, was a sailor on a tramp steamer, a bouncer at some bar in New York, and did a bit of prize-fighting. Breezy and impertinent, sometime odd-job man for J. Mortimer Busby. Playwright, author of Angel in the House, which makes fun of his stepmother, Princess von und zu Dwornitzchek. Lean and hard of body; in love with Jane Abbott.

• Summer Moonshine