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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Making Improvements
Ogden Standard Examiner, 4 March 1908, page 5
Duskell Brothers of the Dreamland Theater, are making much needed improvements on their place of business. The playhouse is being given a thorough renovating and painting. The object of the proprietors is to make of it the most attractive and convenient of its kind in the city, and to accomplish this end they say no means or pains will be spared. Aside from re-painting the premises, the interior is being re-papered, the wall being decorated in landscape panels, executed by local artists.
