SOURCE: "Cream in the Well Opens at the Booth: Martha Sleeper and Leif Erickson Appear in Rustic Tragedy with Oklahoma Setting," in New York Journal-American, January 21, 1941.

In the following review, Anderson offers a negative assessment of The Cream in the Well.

Though Lynn Riggs has brought to the theatre such mature work as Green Grow the Lilacs and Russet Mantle, his latest play … The Cream in the Well, seems to be the sophomoric tragedy about incest every fledgling playwright is supposed to get out of his system early in his career.

[The Cream in the Well] is a gritty and uninteresting study of abnormal passion, tritely gloomy and uninspired.

Since most of it sounds like a heavy prologue to the short final scene of death and spiritual redemption, it has the general appearance of a one-act play that has been expanded by putting long drawn out sighs between...