Peter Brough was an English ventriloquist who began a radio career in 1944. To listeners in the 1950s he became a household name with his puppet Archie Andrews on a radio show titled 'Educating Archie.'

Captain Tommy Kayes was a lion tamer who would enter a cage on stage containing lions and issue commands, often using only a short stick. The Captain sometimes placed his head in the mouth of a male lion, although it is not known if he did that in his act on his visit to the Ilford Hippodrome.