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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Utah Daily Chronicle, 21 March 1972, page 12
After many a season dies the swan, the poet says, but the Seagull Theater in Salt Lake City lasted just one season.
Richard K. Folsom, who founded the theater last September, said he has been forced to close down after producing 10 plays ranging from romantic comedy to serious drama.
He said actors and others involved in the effort plan to reorganize as a nonprofit repertory theater.
