Teffi - "Marquita" - данцингы

[FRISON Philippe]

A guess. Compared with желтый дом, could it be "écervelée", that is "scatterbrained", "hare-brained", or "bird-brained"?

Philippe 
(Strasbourg, France)

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I assume дансинги is a Gallicism: le dancing = dance hall.  But I cannot help with the желтая англичанка; and how did they know she was English?

John Dunn.


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Subject: [SEELANGS] Teffi - "Marquita" - данцингы

Dear all,

This is 1920s Paris.  The heroine is remembering her husband, who has abandoned her and their little son Kot'ka.

Вспоминала мужа, красивого, нехорошего: «Котьку не пожалел. Танцует по дансингам. Видели в собственном автомобиле с желтой англичанкой».

Are these дансингы (данцингы in another edition) simply dance halls?  Does anyone have any ideas as to why the anglichanka might be yellow?

All the best,

Robert


Robert Chandler, 42 Milson Road, London, W14 OLD

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