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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Children's Theatre
Ogden Standard Examiner, 5 October 1913, page 11
The "It" theatre is becoming to be known as the "Children's theatre" lately, as many of their offerings are especially interesting to the little folks and this is further evidenced by the presentation of the old fairy tale we have all read of "Hop O' My Thumb" and the "Seven Leagued Boots" in beautiful natural colors on Monday and Tuesday next. It is predicted the children will enjoy this, and the grown-ups too, for that matter.
