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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At Lyceum
Ogden Standard Examiner, 2 October 1912, page 7
Before the end of the week, the repair work on the Lyceum theater, which was gutted by fire, will have been finished and Manager Fred Hayter will continue to operate the house with a stock company. The interior has been redecorated and new scenery and furniture have been purchased.
