New Girl in Town

For weeks and weeks, Mrs. Anne Potter Hamilton Hunt Spalding had been wondering what Son George's new girl was really like. All she knew for sure was that the young lady came from reputable stock, as attested by a photograph of her father on the hallway table inside the 39-room Beverly Hills mansion. The inscription: "To

George Hamilton, with warm regards from all of us, Lyndon B. Johnson."

For Mrs. Spalding and a few other select Hollywood, the chance to meet Lynda Bird Johnson came last weekend when handsome Screen Actor Hamilton brought his girl home to meet Mother. The occasion was Lynda's 22nd birthday. Assembled in the $200,000 house, once owned by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, were 125 show business celebrities, among them Greer Garson, Natalie Wood, Elke Sommer, Bobby Darin, Jill St. John and Eddie Fisher, who obliged by singing Linda ("When I go to sleep,

1 never count sheep, I count all the charms about Linda"). Later they went on to the Daisy, a Hollywood discotheque, where Lynda did a passable frug. Next day, they lounged around the pool, saw movies in Hamilton's private theater, and were joined by the Tony Curtises and several other couples for dinner.

To the Top. The tanned, lanky Hamilton, 26, whose attributes are more highly esteemed by Hollywood starlets than by the movie critics, comes to such sumptuous living, he says, via a "sort of flotsam and jetsam route"-Memphis, Palm Beach, Manhattan, 25 different schools. His late father was a musician and perfume company executive. His Southern-born mother, George says, is "an Auntie Mame, but more warm and contemporary," who has been married and divorced four times.

She recalls that George "always said he would go into the movies or advertising, because those were the two ways to get to the top fastest."

Mother, though not always in the money, saw to it that young George became a spiffy dresser, and for a time he found work as a male model. He wangled his way to Hollywood with the aid of Mother's good friend, Actress Mae Murray. Never one to overlook an angle, he bought a 1939 Rolls-Royce -and thus began "my image of the rich boy dabbling in pictures."

Some of George's clothes consciousness appears to have rubbed off on Lynda (who has also dropped a few pounds). She showed up for a cocktail party in a black, swoop-backed dress with an enormous, eye-arresting bow at the waist. The better to blend with her new California friends, she received from her parents, among other birthday gifts, a huge pair of sporty sunglasses with checkerboard rims. Actually, around George Hamilton, whose thespian career has blossomed like a Texas rose since he began squiring Lynda, the starry-eyed President's daughter blended well enough as it was. "She has a great sense of humor that'll get her through anything," said one of their set. "Even this weekend."

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