"Picture palace" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... depository was then (it has since been converted into a picture palace) generally accepted as being one of the strongest places in London. The front of the building was constructed to represent a gigantic safe door, and under the colloquial designation of "The Safe" the place had passed into a synonym for all that ...
— Four Max Carrados Detective Stories • Ernest Bramah
... After supper my wife took the little girl to the picture palace in Camden Road. It was quite a ...
— The Hampstead Mystery • John R. Watson
... dinner at the Gadsden Purchase, Pringle had tidings of the Motion Picture Palace; and thither he bent his steps. He was late and the palace was a very small palace indeed; it was with difficulty that he spied in the semidarkness an empty seat in a side section. A fat lady and a fatter man, in the seats nearest the aisle, obligingly moved over rather than risk any ...
— The Desire of the Moth; and The Come On • Eugene Manlove Rhodes |
