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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Schedule of Shows at San Juan Theatre
San Juan Record, 29 August 1946, page 1
The San Juan Theatre at Blanding, which opened on last Friday evening, will try a different schedule than that announced last week. There will be pictures shown on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, with a matinee at 4:15 p. m. on Wednesday, and evening shows at eight o'clock.
On Saturday there will be a three o'clock matinee and an eight o'clock evening show. This schedule will be followed until further notice.
Programs will change twice each week. The picture shown on Saturday will be repeated Monday.
See the ad on the last page each week for the shows to be presented.
