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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Curtain falling on stately old Queen
Deseret News, 30 April 1997, page B2
Article Summary:
In April 1997 the Bountiful City Council approved a plan to demolish
the Queen theater and build a Deseret Book store in its place.
Consolidated Theaters, which closed the Queen after opening the new
Gateway 6 two blocks away, still owned the property and was going to
lease it to Deseret Book.
