picture palace

noun1

1. •
   (UK, old-fashioned) An elaborately decorated motion picture theater, principally as 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; […] — 1918