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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Theives Rob Thorley Theatre
Iron County Record, 3 July 1935, page 4
Two burglaries were committed during the week, the Bob Arthur Pool Hall and Thorley Theatre being broken into.
The burglars entered the pool hall Saturday night, breaking through a back window, but were unsuccessful in locating any money, Mr. Arthur suffering no loss.
Monday night they entered the theatre, picking three locks to get in. This time the thieves escaped with $28 in cash.
The officers are working on several clues but to date no arrests have been made.