Peggy Ryan and Ray McDonald. She's film-star Peggy Ryan, the only girl with eight-man Ray show scheduled to move Sydney Stadium audiences to sobs. But Peggy was really chosen because she foils Johnny Ray her bright face looks as though it's laughing even when she's deep in the glycerine chokers. Where Johnny screws up his face into the most agonising contortions unimaginable when he sings, Peggy accompanies her numbers with pert little expressions of gaiety. She is one of the few comedians left who make their audiences laugh by daring to laugh themselves. When Peggy bounces on to Sydney Airport on September 5 she'll jump right into her new Sydney Stump song-and-dance act with husband Ray McDonald. August 26, 1954.