In this 1936 ad, members of the New York 'Smart Set" enjoy an Old Gold after lunch. But who were they?
Mrs. Wolcott C.W.Andrews was originally Eulalie Ashmore. Wolcott died in the 1949 Eastern Airlines 557 crash. Eulalie went on to marry two more times before dying in 1990. They had one daughter, also named Eulalie, who was an Associate Curator at the National Museum Of The American Indian.
Mrs. Jorge Andre Jr was the former Jane Alred. She and George would divorce in 1939.Jane married twice more, in 1939 and 1975. Alred would become the third wife of Charles Egerton Warburton (grandson of Wanamaker Department Store tycoon John Wanamaker. They married the same year that Charles's second wife, former showgirl Mary Louise Hatch, threw herself off the Westinghouse Memorial Bridge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Hatch was suffering from nervous issues and was despondent over their divorce. Jane's final marriage was to businessman Peter Hallaran. She passed in 1988.
Miss Elisabeth Clements led a quiet life. She would marry banker and paint company heir Newcomb Debevoise Cole Sr in 1939. They had two children. Elisabeth passed in 1984.
Mrs. Kenelm Winslow was the former Miss Natalie Wales. A descendant of English nobility, she wed Kenelm Winslow in 1929. Winslow was the ancestor of Mayflower passenger Gilbert Winslow. They had two daughters.
Natalie is best known as the founder of the "Bundles For Britain" organization. Started in 1940 as a small knitting circle, it developed into a nationwide effort to collect socks, gloves, medicine, and other supplies for the British people.
Natalie's second marriage to Edward Latham lasted less than a year. Almost a decade later, she married another Mayflower descendant, Edward Bragg Paine. Paine died in 1951.
Her final marriage was to Lord Malcom Douglas-Hamilton, a British peer. Hamilton died in 1964 when his plane crashed in central Africa. Natalie passed in 2013 at the age of 103.
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