SOURCE: "The Cream in the Well, Psychological Drama, Opens at the Booth," in New York Sun, January 21, 1941.

In the following review, Lockridge asserts that the plot and characters in The Cream in the Well lack depth, and that "instead of appearing to tell of something which had to happen, [the play tells a mighty gloomy story that the author just thought up." ]

A dark, disturbing play by Lynn Riggs was performed with slow intensity last evening at the Booth Theater. In a world confused by external happenings, Mr. Riggs retains a probing interest in the human mind and in the long shadows cast over it by the taboos which so largely govern human life. His The Cream in the Well comes close to psychological tragedy, and is utterly unrelenting.

But it is, I think, only partially successful and in treating the matters of which Riggs is here writing...