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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SLCC to Start Arts Program in South High Auditorium
Deseret News, 19 April 1989, page D5
Article Summary:
The Development Foundation of the Salt Lake Community College provided $45,000 to begin a Salt Lake Performing Arts Program in the auditorium of the former South High School, now the South City Campus. Pat Davis will direct the program. Six plays or events will be sponsored each year, including "Promised Valley", Dickens' "Christmas Carol", and a Halloween haunted house. The arts center could generate $300,000 per year for the college.
