Ballerina Jocelyn Vollmar, America´s First Snow Queen, Dead At 92
(ArtsJournal Media)

She took that role in the first U.S. version of Nutcracker, in 1944 at San Francisco Ballet. She was a founding member of that company, and she led her fellow dancers in raising the cash to save it from bankruptcy in 1974; she later spent 20 years teaching at the company school.