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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Eastern Utah Advocate, 15 May 1913, page 5
More than four hundred people attended the opening performance of the Princess theater last Saturday evening and thoroughly enjoyed one of the finest moving picture entertainments that has ever been given in Price. Manager Wallick is well pleased with his business since then and promises that there shall be nothing too good for the patrons at all times of this newest and already very popular playhouse.