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Show FAMOUS NEGRO COMEDIAN AND SONG WRITER DIES New York, May 21. Ernest Hagan. one of the best known negro comedians come-dians and song writers, Is dead at his home of tuberculosis. He wrote the book and music of Rufus Rant us. In which he starred for two seasons, then j of the "Oyster Man," which he was ' producing at the time of his illness. ! Hogan wrote several hundred songs of which "All Coons Ixiok Alike to Me," was the most successful. It is ; ?ald he cleared $40,no0 from this song i alone. He was one of the originators of the. "rag time" popular songs. |