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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Better Moving Pictures
Carbon County News, 24 June 1910, page 8
Mr. Prows, who will conduct the moving picture show in the Town Hall Saturday comes to us highly recommended from Emery county where has been showing during the past two years. Every town he has visited lately has proven a success for the people and for himself. He guarantees a good show. The Spanish Bull Fight, which he will give among the lot of scenes is one, he says, has never failed to give the audience pleasure.
