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    Sylvester Zefferino Poli (December 31, 1858 – May 31, 1937) was an Italian immigrant to the USA who became a theatre magnate during the late 19th-century...
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    Main Street in downtown Bridgeport, Connecticut. Built in 1921-22 by Sylvester Z. Poli in a single building that also housed a hotel, they were in their...
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  • ward in Tanzania Poli's Palace Theater, was a movie picture palace built in 1922 by Sylvester Z. Poli in Waterbury, Connecticut. Poli also had a chain...
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    Warren G. Harding. He also appeared on vaudeville stages owned by Sylvester Z. Poli and was awarded lifetime memberships to the American Legion and the...
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  • renovated 125-year-old building and on its website. Houdini performed at Sylvester Z. Poli's theater for in Scranton, which was part of the Keith-Albee-Orpheum...
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  • Stubby was offered a contract by New Haven-based vaudeville impresario Sylvester Z. Poli for a series of engagements. In 1921, General John J. Pershing awarded...
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    attraction in the vaudeville shows run by Benjamin Franklin Keith and Sylvester Z. Poli. He first recorded, as a gruff-voiced comic baritone, in 1907, and...
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    business empire of Sylvester Z. Poli, who controlled as many as thirty theaters, most in the northeastern United States. Only two of Poli's theaters survive...
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    her acting career on the stage, touring with the "Poli Players" stock company of Sylvester Z. Poli. She began working in film in 1914, for the Chicago-based...
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  • Pistoia Mario Pisu Raffaele Pisu Michele Placido Cesare Polacco Afro Poli Paolo Poli Cochi Ponzoni Giuseppe Porelli Renato Pozzetto Giancarlo Prete Andrea...
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