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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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