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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 153, 1 July 1939, Page 12

Noted Harmonica Piayer. Known tho world over for his remarkable playing of the chromatic harmonica, or mouth organ, as it is more generally known, Mr. Larry Adler passed through Auckland on Monday on the Monterey for tlie United States, after a season in Australa. He was only 14 years of ago when he won an amateur contest in Baltimore in 1928, with only three weeks' experience us a player. Next month he is to play at the New York World Fair. Between 1929 and 1934 engagements were not numerous, Mr. Adler said, but in tho latter year, Mr. C. B. Cochran, the distinguished English theatrical producer, was iu America and heard him play. Mr. Adler was immediately offered an engagement in England, where he remain-

ed until recently. He said that much of his success was due to the encouragement he received from Mr. Cochran.