Clara Pasvolsky

Her brother, Leo Pasvolsky, became a journalist and an economist, and later an important figure in the formation of the United Nations.

[4] As a young woman, from about 1909 to 1913, Pasvolsky directed the play room at the University Settlement house in New York.

[8] That same year, she performed with her mentor, baritone Alexis Rienzi, in a program of all Russian songs.

[9] In 1920 she performed in Santa Ana, California,[10] and joined William Butler Yeats, Ariadna Roumanova, Olga Steeb, and other artists and musicians in Los Angeles,[11] to celebrate the birthday of King Albert of Belgium.

[13] "Miss Pasvolsky is of the type which we immediately connect with our experience of the Russian 'temperament' at its most musical," noted the Los Angeles Times in 1920.

Clara Pasvolsky, from a 1920 newspaper.
American Red Cross - Classes in Red Cross Work - Clara Pasvolsky is seated at center, remaking kid gloves into vests for soldiers; NARA - 20802078