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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High Class Moving Picture Show Coming
Wasatch Wave, 19 November 1909, page 2
Having leased the Buell Hall we are prepared to give an exhibition of the highest class, equal to the best moving picture shows of Salt Lake City. We will open our doors Monday evening, Nov. 15, 1909. Admission 10 cents.
R. R. Strong, of Provo, Manager.
