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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Isis to be Reopened by Showman from Butte, Montana
Ogden Standard Examiner, 30 June 1915, page 6
Frank Snazel, a former well-known showman of Butte, Mont., has taken over the interests of Middlemiss and Dorlan in the Isis theatre on Washington avenue, and will reopen the playhouse on Saturday, July 3, with a new film service. The theatre is now being fitted with an up-to-date cooling and ventilation system and is to be remodeled and thoroughly renovated within a short time.
Mr. Snazel is also planning to put in an orchestra and will make its work a feature of future Isis programs.
