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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New Theater for Ogden
Salt Lake Tribune, 19 May 1910, page 1
It was announced today that the Maule estate, beginning June 5, will erect a new theater, on the site of the present Lyceum theater, on lower Twenty-fifth street. The building will be of brick, 40x100 feet in dimension, and will have a seating capacity of 500 on the lower floor and 250 in the balcony. It will be a thoroughly up-to-date show house and will be conducted under the present Lyceum management.
