Events 2022
Sunday, September 10, 2022
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Our event 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!
Event is in-person.
Society members will be notified in due course if this meeting will be available by ZOOM.
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Luncheon served.
Event location - Mena-Kinney
5214 Palomar Lane, Dallas, TX 75229
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
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.
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 guest to attend this event.
6:30 pm - 8:45 pm.
Inwood Theater 5458 West Lovers Lane, Dallas, TX 75209
Regrettably, the post film discussion will not be available for Society members by ZOOM.
Saturday, December 10, 2022
Wednesday, November 16, 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.