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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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Wasatch Theater
Heber City, Utah
 
Status:
Unknown 
Open:
Before 1942  
Closed:
After 1945  
 
In September 1942, the Wasatch Theater offered a free movie ticket for each person who purchased a 25-dollar war bond.<1>  The Wasatch Theater continued to show movies through at least 1945.<2>


1. "Chapter 7: World War II", A History of Wasatch County, by Jesse L. Embry, Utah State History CD-ROM
1. "Rural 3", movie-theatre.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