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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Colonial Theatre Opens Tomorrow
Ogden Standard Examiner, 28 November 1923, page 6
Colonial, the feature theatre, opens tomorrow at 11:45 o'clock, screen time starting at 12 noon, closing at 12 midnight. Two-hour performances will be given. Presenting Marion Davies in the Cosmopolitan production, “Little Old New York.” Sixteen weeks at the Capitol on Broadway, eighth week at the Roosevelt in Chicago, one week at the Colonial.
Gloria Swanson in “Zaxa,” Thomas Meighan in “Woman Proof,” Mary Pickford in “Rosita,” Carmen Meyers and Bessie Love in “The Stair of Desire” are also coming. The greatest shows the industry has ever known will be seen at the Colonial.