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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Cozy Theatre Now Open
Ogden Standard Examiner, 10 May 1917, page 4
Today the Oracle theatre re-opened under the name of “Cozy,” and the playhouse is indeed entitled to the name. The place has been thoroughly gone over by painters, decorators and finishers of the best type until the entire house has been made a veritable cozy theatrical home.
Manager S. B. Steck has spared no means or pains in decorating the front of the building. He has placed new velvet portieres and hangings in the building and brussels carpets have been laid. The Cozy opened today with an attractive program and Mr. Steck states that the usual high standard of performances will be given at all times.
