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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Movie Firm To Build in Orem
Daily Herald, 9 December 1976, page 23
Marshall Smith, executive vice-president of Cooper Highland Theatres of Denver, Colo., announced today that the firm will build a new theatre in Orem.
Mr. Smith said the theatre will have a combined total of 1,000 seats in three auditoriums. It wilt be located across from the University Mall next to Grand Central.
Landlords for the theatres will be John Price and Associates of Salt Lake City.. Construction will begin in March with a projected opening slated for August. 1971, he said.
Final plans for the theatre will be announced at a later date.
