A Girl to Watch Music By - Ray Columbus and Max Cryer

Ray has an agile face, very mobile eyes, and rather unusual, chiselled features — a legacy from his Greek ancestry. He is also, as everyone knows, very short, and sitting on my knee leaves his feet completely clear of the ground. It looked very funny and we knew it...

– Max Cryer, in his 1978 book Town Cryer

Ray is an excellent dancer and I'm terrible, so once again we called on our friend Cherry Raymond to help out. It was Cherry who suggested that Ray try sitting on my knee like a ventriloquist's dummy.

– Max Cryer, in his 1978 book Town Cryer

No. When something makes the impact that that did, it's best to leave it as it is.

– Max Cryer on whether he ever repeated the ventroliquist act, in an interview for 2019 TV series Funny As: The Story of New Zealand Comedy