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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Crest Theatre Puts In New Manager
Millard County Chronicle, 10 December 1936, page 1
Mr. Robert Whicker has been hired by the owners of the Crest Theatre to manage the theatre and he took charge last Sunday. Mr. Whicker was long associated with the Delta Theatre and knows the show business. He has planned several new features that will be worked out as he becomes more familiar with the show.
