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In becoming a movie house, the Olympic reverts to the building's previous life as Byfield Hall, a historic entertainment venue whose attractions included the bioscope, an early form of cinema.

They couldn't, of course, visit "bioscopes" for whites.

We had expected to see the whole surface of the Mediterranean almost as busy as State and Madison, or Broadway and Forty-second—craft of all descriptions criss-crossing the blue ripples, a continuous aquatic bioscope.

Then of course there are the usual popular amusements—the inevitable bioscope, the gramophone, and all sorts of shows.

He might have been operating that bioscope the night before, be due back the next, and just having a look at things in France on his night off.