Once Famous Now Penniless

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 330, 11 January 1937, Page 2

Once Famous Now Penniless

WOMAN WHO PLAYED IN COURIS OF EUROPE A woman pianist who once had an international reputation and her husband, formerly an actor, are living m poverty at East Preston, near Worthing, Sussex. They are Mr and Mrs Moon, and they ire dependent upon the old age pension und the assistance ot friends. Mr. Moon is ill in the institution near by, and his wife, who also had an illness two months ago, pays him daily visits. Mrs Moon, 78, was regarded in her youth as a musical prodigy. As Emily Tate she played before Queen Victoria at Osborne House, by Royal Command, when 17. She received as a Boy al present a diamond-stud-ded gold watch. Pianist to Tsar. Mrs Moon later played before many Courts. She became pianist to the Tsar of Russia and instructress at the Russian Imperial Cdnservatoire. Air Moon appeared in ‘ ‘Charley’s Aunt” for a number of years at the height of its popularity. After going to America Mr and Airs Aloon taught music and elocution in Florida, but they were badly hit by the bank crashes in America, and returned to England seven years ago. They nowhave rooms in a cotfage.