{
  "title": "THE HALL OF FANTASY",
  "category": "[RADIO-SERIES]",
  "article": "Years before the more famous run of this series on WGN in Chicago.\nRichard Thorne and Carl Greyson were both announcers at KALL in Salt Lake City, and they put\non this show (with very barebones production) for several months in late ’46 and early ’47. They\nthen went their separate professional ways, but when by pure coincidence they re-encountered\neach other working at WGN in Chicago a couple of years later, they decided to revive the program.\nThere are in circulation six of the KALL original Hall of Fantasy broadcasts (sponsored by the\nGranite Furniture Company, but missing the commercials, which were inserted live).\nCHICAGO TRIBUNE: “A Chicago product, Thorne is an alumnus of Amundsen High, Central\nY.M.C.A., and the University of Illinois. In 1946 he worked at WBEZ, Chicago’s board of education\nstation, adapting numerous Shakespeare plays for radio.\nHe wrote his first suspense play “just to see if I could scare people.”\nGreyson was born in Milwaukee and educated at the University of Wisconsin and the University\nof Utah. In 1947 he worked in a New York straw hat circuit as an actor, then moved to WSM in\nNashville, Tenn., where he was a news commentator.\nBoth Thorne and Greyson landed at KALL in Salt Lake City, Utah, where Hall of Fantasy was\nfirst tried on the air for size.\n“We operated shoe string style in those days,” Greyson recalled. “As we read the scripts we had\nto provide our own sound effects. Many a time I held a fishbowl for Dick to talk into. I got 3\ndollars for a show then, and Dick got $10.”\n[Deseret News, March 28, 1949] “Beth may never enter the field professionally, but she has\nenjoyed a great deal of experience in the world of drama… Back in Salt Lake, Beth enrolled at the\nUniversity of Utah where she chalked up a record of activity. It included her first play, ‘Peter\nPan’… Betwixt and between she had her own radio program on KALL, entitled ‘Elizabeth Calder\nPresents--,’ and worked in the station’s Sunday scheduled ‘Hall of Fantasy’.”",
  "origination": "KALL, Salt Lake City, Utah (Inter-Mountain Network).",
  "duration": "November 20, 1946-June 1, 1947.",
  "personnel": "Earl Donaldson (organist), Bob Olsen (scriptwriter), Nephi Sorenson (technical\nsupervisor), Richard Thorne (director), Mal Wyman (announcer).\nCASTS: Michael Bruce, Beth Calder, Carl Greyson, Nelson Hall, Richard Harcourt, June\nHayworth, Archie Hugely, Ken Jensen, Mike LaRogo, Carol Moser, Phyllis Perry, Richard Thorne,\nMal Wyman.\nSPONSOR: Granite Furniture Company.",
  "extant_recordings": "“The Perfect Script” (2/16/47), “Death in the Bayous” (3/9/47), “The\nJudge’s House” (4/6/47), “Man-size in Marble” (4/13/47), “Markheim” (4/27/47), “The Mark of\nShame” (5/4/47).\n[NOTE: Most collectors’ catalogs list the dates of recording for these episodes rather than—as\nindicated above—the actual broadcast dates.]\nTHE HALL OF FANTASY (KALL, SALT LAKE CITY)\n[Wednesday—11:30 PM-12:00 MIDNIGHT]\nNov. 20, 1946\n[Wednesday—9:00-9:30 PM]\nNov. 27, 1946\nDec. 4, 1946\nDec. 11, 1946\nDec. 18, 1946\nDec. 25, 1946\nJan. 1, 1947\nJan. 8, 1947\n[Sunday—8:30-9:00 PM]\nJan. 12, 1947\nJan. 19, 1947\nJan. 26, 1947\nFeb. 2, 1947\nFeb. 9, 1947\nFeb. 16, 1947\n“The Perfect Script”\nFeb. 23, 1947\n“The Cask of Amontillado”\nMarch 2, 1947\nMarch 9, 1947 “Death in the Bayous”\nMarch 16, 1947 “The Doctor of Terror”\nMarch 23, 1947\nMarch 30, 1947\nApril 6, 1947\n“The Judge’s House”\nApril 13, 1947\n“Man-Size in Marble”\nApril 20, 1947\n[Sunday—9:30-10:00 PM]\nApril 27, 1947\n“Markheim”\nMay 4, 1947\n“The Mark of Shame”\n[Sunday—7:30-8:00 PM]\nMay 11, 1947\nMay 18, 1947\nMay 25, 1947\nJune 1, 1947",
  "chronology": "",
  "sources": "",
  "gallery": "",
  "images": []
}