John Morgan ("Rags") Ragland, 40, onetime truck driver and burlesque gagster who hit the big time in Broadway's Panama Hattie, became filmdom's genial portrayer of comic morons .
In San Francisco, citizens got a few sardonic laughs from some gagster's "Plan of Air-Raid Protection and Civilian Defense.
Last week many a German enjoyed a quiet chuckle when he found in his mailbox a fake bill from an industrious gagster who "demanded" payment for a suit of clothes made of wood .