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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Carbon County News, 17 November 1911, page 3
The Liberty theatre is now showing illustrated songs, and is furnishing some fine vocal solos in connection with them.
The Isis theatre was sold this week to Anderson & White, of the new Liberty theatre, and the two shows have been consolidated, giving the Liberty greater seating capacity, and altogether a better show.
