Paul Stanley (composer)

He became an American citizen in 1869 and resided in New York City for most of his life before relocating to San Francisco after the turn of the 20th century.

[2] Stanley's vaudeville career included a stint with Wright's Comedians in a two-man act with Jay Brennan;[3] an act billed as "Paul Stanley and his Mother-in-Law" at the Milwaukee Theatre;[4] solo performances called "character changes" with the London Theatre Specialty Company at Boston's Lyceum Theatre;[5] and performances billed as "Paul Stanley, the international comedian" at the Atlantic Garden in Brooklyn, New York.

[7] Stanley's health began to fail after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake left him near destitute.

In a column printed some two months after his death, a musician friend recalled Stanley's disappointment at failing to succeed as a composer of grand opera.

"When he lived here (San Francisco) he often talked with a quaint kind of melancholy about the high ambitions of his youth, and how they had become humbler as he got older.