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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Discontinues Running Advertisements
Iron County Record, 2 March 1923, page 1
Allredge Thorley, manager of the Thorley theatre, has discontinued the running of advertisements on the screen between the reels while the show is in operation.
Mr. Thorley has found that the flashing of advertisements on the screen detracts unpleasantly the attention and interest of the patrons in the story being portrayed, and has a consequence has discontinued the practice.
Mr. Thorley is to be complemented on making it possible for his patrons to thoroughly enjoy the very excellent line of motion picture plays he is giving.
