In November, I attended North High School’s production of “Radium Girls.” I found the story compelling and decided to read the book the play is based on — “The Radium Girls” by Kate Moore.

The Department of Dance, Music, and Theatre at Cal Poly Humboldt and the Associated Students will present “Radium Girls” — written by D.W. Gregory and directed by James Peck — at the Van ...

Hundreds of women and girls were exposed to a radioactive chemical at an Illinois factory in the 1920s. Years later, they helped change workplace safety standards. In the early 1900s, radium was ...

Many lost their teeth. Others, like Amalia Maggia in the play, ‘Radium Girls’, simply died from radium poisoning, derived from painting clock dials with luminous radium paint using fine-tipped ...

In 1917, scores of patriotic young women, later known as “radium girls,” counted themselves lucky to have landed war work at ...

There is still time to see the Baytown Little Theater’s presentation of the true story of the dial painters who used radium ...

Set in the early 20th century, “Radium Girls” tells the tale of New Jersey-based U.S. Radium Corp. The company manufactured watches using the element radium, which made their product glow in ...

“Radium Girls” opens Friday ... Junior Kaia Norris and sophomore Jagger Goulart portray newspaper reporters who use yellow journalism tactics popular in the era. They serve as the narrators ...

Set in the 1920's when little was known about the effects of radioactive substances, "Radium Girls" is a story of how negligence and prejudice can lead to tragedy. The dial painters slowly ...