The blue book of the screen (1923)

DERELYS PERDUE ■ • ERELYS PERDUE, newly discovered beauty of the screen, was originally a dancer. She is rapidly winning a renown on the screen comparable to the widespread fame she enjoys as a dancer. Miss Perdue was born in Kansas City, Mo., where she graduated from high school and later attended a private school for girls. She began the study of dancing when only six years of age. Miss Perdue came to Los Angeles four years ago after an engagement with the Marion Morgan dancers, where she has been since, staging numerous solo dances and ballets at leading theaters in Los Angeles and supervising terpsichorean features in motion pictures. < i She arranged and supervised the big dancing episodes in Allen Holubar's "Man, Woman and Marriage," Rex Ingram's "Conquering Power," and Mack Sennett's "A Small Town Idol." She danced and played an important role in three Olive Thomas Triangle productions several years ago. She gave three solo dances and played one of the featured roles with Grace Darmond in Warner Brothers' serial, "The Jungle Adventures." Miss Perdue recently played an important part in Victor Schertzinger's production, "The Kingdom Within." It was in "The Bishop of the Ozarks" that she was given her first really big opportunity. She appears as leading woman of the production. Her remarkable poise, her rare personal charm and a natural aptitude to act, combine to make her portrayal of "Margy" in "The Bishop of the Ozarks" one of the wonder pictures of the screen. She measures five feet, five and one-half inches in height and weighs 125 pounds. She is the possessor of dark brown hair and large brown eyes. When the Western Motion Picture Advertisers' Association made a choice of twelve ingenue types to exploit in the years 1923-24, Miss Perdue was one of the first mentioned. At present she is signed with one of the leading producing organizations where she will be featured in special films. Portrait by Grenbeaux Los Angeles 198