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Show MOVIE "TOWN' AIDS' HOUSING Fake Belgian Village, at a Little More Cost, Provides for a Score of Fanilies. Even the inovivs have their utilitarian utili-tarian uses, it seems. In some sections of the country they seem in n fair way to help solve our housing problems. At least they did so iu a Westchester town not long ag. The scene the movie scene, that Is was a Belgian ullage, and with the accustomed profligacy of the picture producers the entire village must needs he built. The intent and purpose of the director was to build the houses of board and papier-mache, and then destroy de-stroy them all when the picture was completed. Certain residents of the town, however, were possessed with foresight, says the New York Sun. The township was suffering from building restriction, and some one figured that the movie men could build their village vil-lage of slightly more substantial material ma-terial at a comparatively little increased in-creased cost. The proposition was put to the director, who agreed to let the town supply him with materials and labor on a proportionate basis. As a result the town has added nearly near-ly twenty new houses and twenty new-families new-families have moved In, paying the township only slightly more than the property was worth. The township taxes the houses, the housing situation is relieved, the movie men have vanished van-ished and everybody is happy. |