(UK, dated, historical) An elaborately decorated motion picture theater, principally constructed from 1910 to 1950.
After tea, the bright boys wash, clean their boots, and change into their “second-best” attire, and stroll forth, either to a picture palace or to the second house of the Balham Hippodrome;
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