Poli, Sylvester Z.
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Birthname | Sylvester Zefferino Poli | ||||
born on | 31 December 1859 at 22:00 (= 10:00 PM ) | ||||
Place | Lucca, Italy, 43n50, 10e29 | ||||
Timezone | LMT m10e29 (is local mean time) | ||||
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Biography
Italian immigrant to the USA who became a theatre magnate during the late 1800s and early decades of the 20th century.
By 1916, he was heralded as the largest individual theatre owner in the world, establishing himself throughout the regional Northeastern United States. Starting with a career in wax sculpting, he quickly moved on to dime museums, curios, variety shows, and ultimately vaudeville theatres and movie palaces.
Sylvester Poli married Rosa Leverone from Genoa, Italy in 1885. Sylvester and Rosa had five children.
He died on Memorial Day, 31 May 1937, at the age of 78 due to pneumonia.
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Source Notes
Sy Scholfield cites a quote from him in his Wikipedia biography: "I was a year old, two hours after I was born" (the source is given as "New Haven County periodical circa 1928 Family Archives").
Categories
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Pneumonia (Terminal)
- Family : Parenting : Kids more than 3 (Five)
- Lifestyle : Home : Expatriate
- Personal : Death : Illness/ Disease (Pneumonia)
- Vocation : Business : Business owner
- Vocation : Entertain/Business : Manager/ Agent
- 1859 births
- Birthday 31 December
- Birthplace Lucca, ITALY
- Sun 9 Capricorn
- Moon 3 Aries
- Asc 14 Virgo
- 1937 deaths
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Pneumonia
- Family : Parenting : Kids more than 3
- Lifestyle : Home : Expatriate
- Personal : Death : Illness/ Disease
- Vocation : Business : Business owner
- Vocation : Entertain/Business : Manager/ Agent