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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New Theatre for Robinson
Eureka Reporter, 16 August 1912, page 8
The people of Robinson will soon have another moving picture show replacing the one which was destroyed by fire last week. The new building, which is to be 36x70 feet, will be erected by the Tintic Lumber Co. upon the site of the old building. Work has already started upon the building and an effort will be made to complete it within the next three weeks. McIntyre & McGee saved all their moving picture equipment and furniture from the building which was burned and will lose no time in getting the new show in motion.
