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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Maze Theatre Opens
Vernal Express, 3 May 1912, page 2
The Maze Theatre opened Saturday night in the [missing word] Block under the management of Joseph Sims and David [Tolliver?]. The Maze has a wonderful machine which has given its owners a good reputation in the reservation country where they have been showing previous to establishing a show in Vernal. Mr. Morley Vernon of Maeser is pianist and Miss Thompson soloist at the Maze.
