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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Theater Refurbished
Salt Lake Tribune, 28 January 1965, page B9
Refurbishing of the Murray Theater, a modernization program costing $15,000, has just been completed, according to owner A. M. Jolley. Purchased in September 1964, by Mr. Jolley, who also owns the Queen Theatre in Bountiful, the Murray Theatre, 4961 So. State St., has been completely refitted to accommodate the family trade, he said.
