In DeMille's early sexual comedies, upper-class adultery was satirized rather than condemned, and sin was easily redressed by style. (See also The Affairs of Anatol, May 18.) Why Change Your Wife? is enjoyable both for its Wildesque epigrams and for its early twenties fashions wildly interpreted by designer Clare West. Gloria Swanson is the once vital, now dowdy wife "whose virtues are her only vice." Hubby, hoping to engage her in a Hindustan foxtrot and then some, seeks a stylish negligee but is smitten instead by the model (Bebe Daniels). End of marriage...or is it? Swanson pulls out all the stops, and a few of the sleeves, straps, backs, and bodices, to become the best-dressed divorcee this side of The Women. Bebe, herself no slouch in furs and feathers, can't hold a candle to her because, in a beehive hat, Gloria's been liberated. Fashion has set her free. (JB)