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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Summer serves a full plate of theater
New dinner plays now on menu at old Alhambra
Deseret News, 27 June 1999, page E8
Article Summary:
The Little London Dinner Theatre will debut this week in the 77-year-old Alhambra Theatre with the musical revue, "Music of the Night: A Broadway Medley." The theater's "stage has been rebuilt and the seating has been reconfigured to seat 180 patrons around tables. A new concrete floor was also poured, changing the previously raked floor into tiers for tables and chairs. . . Office space at the back of the theater has been remodeled into a kitchen and bakery."
