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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Anderson & White Buy the Isis Theater
Eastern Utah Advocate, 16 November 1911, page 1
A deal was made the first of the week whereby the Isis moving picture theater, owned by Sturtevant & Robinson, becomes the property of Anderson & White, the proprietors of the Liberty theater. The deal includes the lease on the property formerly occupied by the Isis on Main street, also the furniture and fixtures. The managers of the Liberty will continue the business in their present location in the Short building and will use the same film service that the Isis had.