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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Main Theatre Gets First Utah Showing of 'Bad Men of Missouri'
Vernal Express, 24 July 1941, page 5
The Main Theatre's new picture opening Sunday will be “Bad Men of Missouri,” a rip-roaring saga of pioneer times, with Dennis Morgan playing the lead as Cole Younger, chieftain of the notorious gang of bank and train robbers that terrorized Missouri, Iowa, and Kansas immediately after the Civil War.
Playing with Morgan are Wayne Morris as Bob Younger, Arthur Kennedy as Jim Younger, Jane Wyman as Mary Hathaway, Victor Jory as Banker William Merrick and Sam McDaniel as the servant Wash.
