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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Six-plex theater to open Thursday
Deseret News, 1 October 1980, page B13
The first theater six-plex in Utah will be opened by Mann Theaters Thursday and Friday nights at the Plaza Shopping Center, 5400 South Redwood Rd.
Guests at the opening will be actress Rhonda Fleming, native Utahn, and her husband, Ted Mann, who owns and operates movies houses and produces films.
The opening will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday for an invited audience. Public showings will begin Friday. Six new movies are scheduled.
Mr. Mann and Miss Fleming will be making their second visit to Salt Lake in less than a year. Last November, they opened multiple theater units in the Ogden and Provo-Orem areas.
Mann has extensive theater holdings in Utah, Idaho and Montana. He owns nearly 300 showhouses throughout the nation and has the second largest number of theaters owned by a single individual in the United States. He also has been active in theater production. His most recent film was Brubaker, starring Robert Redford.
While in Salt Lake, Mann and Miss Flemming are scheduled to visit with Governor Scott M. Matheson.