Orpheus Hall
Vernal, Utah
C. W. Showalter, and Andrew King opened the Orpheus Hall on Thanksgiving Day, 30 November 1911. The amusement hall had a spring dance floor, but was also used for roller skating, basketball, banquets, and movies. It was named after the Greek god of Mirth, “a famous musician who is reputed to have had power to entrance men, beasts, and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre.” At 11:00 PM on New Years Eve, 1928, the hall was renamed Imperial Hall. In a ceremony on 20 April 1965, Governor Governor Calvin L. Rampton took a sledge hammer and delivered the first blow in the demolition of the hall as part of a community beautification campaign.
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Face Morals Charge
Salt Lake Tribune, 27 June 1946, page 9
Mike Siouris, 2579 S. State, was ordered bound over to Third district court Wednesday by City Judge Clifford L. Ashton to face a charge of indecent assault on a nine-year-old girl. He is accused of committing the offense when he showed the girl and a young companion through a new theater building under construction.
