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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Can it be true?
Herald Journal, 31 January 2003
Article Summary:
After the successful showing of several art films at the Reel Time Theatre recently, Westates Theatres has announced it will rename the theater Logan Art Cinema and convert it into a full-time, first-run theater specializing in critically acclaimed, non-traditional "art" films.
