60 year old Rex Pebble inadvertently discovers that the fountain of
youth happens to be in his back yard swimming pool. A magical statue
of a nymph by the name of Baggage, an ornamental pool decoration, has
playfully endowed the Pebble swimming pool with the power to reverse
the aging process. Typical Thorne Smith fun ensues when Pebble, his
wife, and his mistress take a dip and take 20 years off their lives.
One of the funniest scenes concerns a book dealer wanting to display
his old and rare to Pebble's unresponsive mistress.
The Ron Howard movie Cocoon borrowed the theme from the Glorious Pool with many of the same humourous results.
The Glorious Pool, published in 1935 after Thorne Smith's death was completed by his wife, Celia. This is the last novel that Smith had a direct part in writing.
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