Ken G. Hall - Early Years

Early Years

Hall was born Kenneth George Hall in Paddington, Sydney, Australia in 1901, the third child of Charles and Florence Hall. He was educated at North Sydney Boys' High School. At age 15, with the help of his father, he gained a cadetship at the Sydney Evening News, where he became friends with a young Kenneth Slessor, then a cadet for another paper. Two years later, he became a publicist for Union Theatres, initially working as an assistant to Gayne Dexter. He had a six month stint as manager for the Lyceum Theatre then returned to publicity, working his way up to national publicity director. In 1924 Hall joined the American distribution company First National Pictures as a publicist, and visited Hollywood the following year.