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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Joseph Smith film to debut
Deseret News, 14 November 2005
Article Summary:
"Joseph Smith, The Prophet of the Restoration":
- new film depicts Joseph Smith's life from his early youth in Vermont to his martyrdom in Illinois at age 38
- will begin showing in the Legacy Theater on 17 December 2005
- produced under the supervision of the First Presidency
- part of the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Joseph Smith's birth
