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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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Delta Theater
Delta, Utah
 
Status:
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Open:
Before 1927  
Closed:
After 1930  
 

The Pace family operated the Delta Theater in a space adjacent to their automobile dealership.  In 1927 the Delta Theater was rebuilt using some of the equipment and furnishings from the Lincoln Theater, which was destroyed by fire in 1922.1  The theater was still open in 1930.2


1. "Chapter 7: Expansion in the 1910s and 1920s", "A History of Millard County", by Edward Leo Lyman and Linda King Newell, Utah History Suite CD-ROM
2. The Delta Theater was listed in the 1927-1928 and 1930-1931 editions of the Utah State Gazetteer and Business Directory.