Show Business: Burton, Burton, Smith's Got the Burtons

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Not high-minded Smith College. Despite the unflattering references to the fictional school in Edward Albee's hit play ("Musical beds is the faculty sport here"), Smith is allowing Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton the run of the campus for exteriors in the screen version of Virginia Woolf. Explained a Smith official: "As an educational institution we didn't feel we could conscientiously bar them from our premises." A Northampton chamber of commerce official was also unafraid:

"We're glad to cooperate with business people, real craftsmen who say they expect to spend $150,000 here, all told."

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