 Hall, described by George T. Simon as "an affable man who looked more like the chief buyer in a men's clothing store than a bandleader", performed with his band In the 1920s in the Arcadia Ballroom in New York, as "George Hall and His Arcadians".The band was successful, and they made recording for Pathe Actuelle.In the early 1930s the band moved to the Grill Room of the Taft Hotel in New York; the band was renamed "George Hall and His Hotel Taft Orchestra".