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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Dan Valentine's Nothing Serious
Salt Lake Tribune, 22 June 1960, page B1
Around and About: A frantic lemon-pie lover screams that no Utah champion lemon-pie baker should be crowned until Mrs. Casey Bown, wife of the fish and game man, is considered. “Mrs. Bown's lemon pies are the best in the west,” the lemon-pie lover says, “and I resent your crowning Mrs. M. A. Siouris as Utah lemon-pie champion without considering Mrs. Bown. Why?” . . . (Well, I've tasted Mrs. Siouris' lemon pie, and I ain't tasted Mrs. Bown's lemon pie, but I'm willing to reopen the competition if Mrs. Bown is willing to donate a lemon pie for judging – and I'm the sole judge!) . . .
