Foreign News: Lunacharsky v. Religion

With the new Soviet anti-religious campaign now in full cry (TIME,Jan. 14), Commissar of Education Anatole Lunacharsky released, last week, a cinema drama called Salamander. Heroine: Mme. Lunacharsky, strikingly beautiful, known to her intimates as "Natalia." Author: M. Lunarharsky.

Plot: The pious folk of a Russian provincial town fiendishly conspire against a kindly atheist professor of zoology and his wife (Mme. Lunacharsky). The professor is expelled from his post, after the Christians "frame" him in such fashion as to make it appear that he is a pervert. Reduced...

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