The Paramount Theatre Snack Bar, 1955
The Paramount Theatre Snack Bar, 1955

In 1955 the U.S. trade magazine Motion Picture Herald had a couple of images of the Paramount Theatre candy bar. It praised the manager, Arthur Cauley, for his promotional initiative, but did not give the names of the women staffers in the photos.

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Robert Clarke
Glimpses of the Early Movie-Going Audience in Peterborough
Glimpses of the Early Movie-Going Audience in Peterborough

From women and children to a supposedly ne’re-do-well Irishman – from visiting Roma to a famous local Mississauga Ojibway athlete and his wife – from the teenage working-class Cathleen McCarthy to the Grants, a relatively well-off family – attendance at early motion pictures shows a surprising diversity.

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Robert ClarkeQuo Vadis, Grand Opera House, Trent Valley Archives, Roy Studio, Peterborough Examiner, Peter Morris, Roma, Fred Simpson, Royal Theatre, Marguerite Walsh, Janice Forsyth, Cathleen McCarthy, Princess Theatre, Crystal Theatre, Jackson Park, The Passion Play, Peter Lester, Alexander Grant, Maude Grant, Crocker's Horses, Roy Rosenzweig
The Jazz “Age of Amusement” – Not to Everyone’s Liking
The Jazz “Age of Amusement” – Not to Everyone’s Liking

By the 1920s a mass audience was appreciating the thrills and spills of the modern moving picture show. People in Peterborough could see movies daily at the Capitol and Royal theatres on George Street, the Regent on Hunter, and occasionally, too, at the city’s most prestigious spot, the Grand Opera House.

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audience, theatres, diversity, classRobert ClarkeQuo Vadis, Grand Opera House, Trent Valley Archives, Roy Studio, Peterborough Examiner, Peter Morris, Roma, Fred Simpson, Marguerite Walsh, Janice Forsyth, Cathleen McCarthy, Princess Theatre, Crystal Theatre, Jackson Park, The Passion Play, Peter Lester, Alexander Grant, Maude Grant, Crocker's Horses, Roy Rosenzweig