Radium Dial Co. was one of just a few manufacturers of glow-in-the-dark watch faces in the country at the time. Purcell and the other workers, many of them teenage girls, spent their days ...

Some radium girls even took to wearing their best ball gowns to work on Friday so they would glow at the dance that weekend. Girls painted their nails with radium, sprinkled flakes into their hair ...

When the girls mixed the paint, radium dust got everywhere, making everything glow, including the girls. Dials were painted with fine camel-hair brushes, but the bristles tended to spread.

Then came a point where the glow wasn't so cool as one girl ... at this true life story through the eyes of only three Radium factory girls when it opens "Radium Girls" on Friday in its Studio ...

The brightness of radium attracted workers, who were soon referred to as the "ghost girls." Employers directed them to smooth their paintbrush tips by licking them. Their mouths began to glow ...

“They painted it with paint to make it glow. And in order to get the fine ... Bishop Ireton High School will be presenting “Radium Girls” from Nov. 8-10. Performances will be Nov. 8 and ...

ROCK SPRINGS — The Actors’ Mission is seeking actors for its upcoming production of “Radium Girls” to tell a radioactive ... who applied radium to glow-in-the-dark instrument panels ...

“Radium Girls” is based on a group of young women who were hired to paint watches with radium to make them glow in the dark. More than 50 died as a result of radium paint poisoning. The show ...

The Burton Leavitt Theatre will transform into the 1920s when “Radium Girls” takes the stage for its first performance Friday ...

TRAVERSE CITY — It’s the last weekend to check out the play “Radium Girls” at the Old Town Playhouse ... on the watch dials so they would glow in the dark. Eventually the women discover ...