Events 2022
Saturday, September 10, 2022
Saturday, September 10, 2022
Saturday, September 10, 2022
Our Fall event will feature Margherita Orsi, Ph.D. student from the University of Bologna. Margherita will review our 2022 Short Story Study - A Border Line Case. The story centers around a young actress (whose next role is Viola/Cesaro in Twelfth Night) who decides after the sudden death of her father to look up his estranged colleague in Ireland. The colleague was best man at her parents’ wedding but shortly thereafter vanished without a trace from their lives. Reflecting on the story, Daphne du Maurier once wrote:
"…it’s rather an awful story really. The end, I mean."
Ouch!
11:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Event location - Melrose Hotel
3015 Oak Lawn Ave, Dallas, TX 75219
Luncheon served.
Green Salad with Champagne Vinaigrette dressing
Marinated Chicken Breast, Whipped Potato, Steamed Vegetable
Warm Rolls & Butter
Double Chocolate Brownie with Fresh Berries & Carmel Sauce
(Cost of luncheon has been underwritten by Maxim de Winter so there is no charge for DdM Society Members)
Society members will be notified in due course if this meeting will be available by ZOOM.
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Saturday, September 10, 2022
Saturday, September 10, 2022
Join us for Movie Night in November!! Often Daphne du Maurier's stories illuminate the competing dual natures within individual characters, occasionally even with doppelgangers. This has long been recognized as Daphne du Maurier’s debt to The Prisoner of Zenda, one of her favorite novels from childhood. The novel spawned an entire genre known as Ruritanian romance.
After viewing the movie, Attorney Chris Peirson will discuss these spin-offs and their influence on the works of Daphne du Maurier. Among our local members there was quite a passionate exchange about which film version to view; however, almost everyone's favorite bad boy is James Mason. So the 1952 version it will be.
There is no charge for DdM Society Members and their guests to attend this event.
6:30 pm - 8:45 pm.
Inwood Theater 5458 West Lovers Lane, Dallas, TX 75209
Regrettably, this event will not be available for Society members by ZOOM.
Saturday, December 10, 2022
Saturday, September 10, 2022
Saturday, December 10, 2022
Join us for our annual Christmas in Cornwall Luncheon (held in Dallas, Texas rather than Fowey, unfortunately). One of Daphne du Maurier's plays, A September Tide, will be reviewed by Oral Historian and playwright Leonard Cox. The story revolves around an artist son-in-law who falls in love with the more mellow grace of his wife's mother. The feather weight treatment of post-war cynicism and morals in the younger generation permits a wistfully happy ending. Or does it?
Event is in-person.
Society members will be notified in due course if this meeting will be available by ZOOM.
Noon - 2:30 pm
Event location - Mena-kinney
Luncheon served.