The Columbia Theater was open from about 1918 to 1927^[1] and showed movies from about 1920 to 1925.^[2]

A November 1920 ad for the Columbia theater said, “Sprightly Jazz dance and musical act.”^[3]

1. Polk’s Utah Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1918-1919, 1920-1921, 1922-1923, 1927-1928
2. "Provo", movietheatre.org, listing as its sources the Film Weekly Film Journal yearbooks 1920, 1925, 1930, 1935, 1940, 1945, 1950, 1955 and International motion picture almanacs 1961, 1964, 1969, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 1998, 2000
3. "Chapter 9: The Age of Jazz, 1920-1929", A History of Utah County, by Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Utah State History CD-ROM