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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Utah Business In brief
Salt Lake Tribune, 21 November 2003
Article Summary:
"Watching Thursday as signs were erected on the
53-year-old Villa Theatre, neighbors thought a deal to save the movie
house finally had gone through. Not yet, says a spokeswoman for
property owner Harmons. The crew of The WB network's Everwood
television series is using it as a set. There is still no word on a
sale that could save the 1,000-seat theater, which closed in February."