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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Odeon Theater Under New Management
Ogden Standard Examiner, 21 November 1908, page 5
Higginbotham and Platt are now in possession of the Odeon theater on Twenty-fourth street and are having the house thoroughly renovated preparatory to opening the same Saturday evening. The cloth screen has been removed and a fine plaster wall will be installed, upon which the pictures will appear to much better effect. The Cameraphone used by the De Mott management proved a failure as an attraction and straight pictures and illustrated songs will be run in the house henceforth. Excellent film service has been secured and an interesting and instructive program is guaranteed to patrons.