Larry Adler

"This mouth-organ (Larry Adler preferred to call it this, not 'harmonica') is from when Larry Adler performed in Dublin. Some time around 1950, John Charles McQuaid, the RC Archbishop of Dublin, managed to get harmonica player Larry Adler banned from the Theatre Royal - a harmonica player! Apparently the reason given was that the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) had blacklisted Adler as a Communist. "