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Doc Baker made his first appearance as a big-timer here. Like many another he had to travel far to make the home folks believe it. Baker proved a good entertainer and quick worker at changes, but he was snowed under but the other features of the act, “Flashes.” First of all in credit for the handiwork of Menlo Moore and Macklin Megley, the producers. Second was the all-around stellar showing of Polly Walker, the niftiest showbrette let loose on an unexpected public this year. If “Flashes” must go plural, the little one must at least be recorded as main flash.
Moore stands alone as a vaudeville producer of girl acts. Like Ziegfeld in higher-priced revues, he has that something – and that something is everything. Class tells it about as broadly and as comprehensively as any word. The corking good taste in costuming, setting, staging and routine; the freshness, the crisp animations, the cleanly sophistication – they mark a Menlo Moore product. Miss Walker typifies every attribute of her manager; he selects as he creates. Baker is a masculine looking baritone, excellent in ballads, lost in comedy. The turn assisted by a flock of assorted babes in an assortment of delicious costumes, held the Palace mob in to a man, closing the matinee, and drew applause.
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Variety Magazine, LVIII: 10 December 1920