Without exception, the radium girls were told the paint was safe to handle, and so virtually no precautions were taken while they handled and even ingested countless doses of radioactive poison.

The girls, some as young as 14, painted watch dials with a luminous, radium-containing paint to make the dials visible in the dark. When the girls mixed the paint, radium dust got everywhere ...

"Radium Girls' is a "ghost play" that tells of memories of what happened 100 years ago to young women painting radium dials, director says.

‘Radium Girls’ Speak Out ... Girls,” a story by D.W. Gregory about female factory workers in the 1920s who contract radiation poisoning from painting watch dials. Inspired by a true story, ...

Performances of “Radium Girls” will be on June 6, 7, 12, 13 and 14 at 7:30 p.m. and June 8 and 15 at 2 p.m. Tickets for adults are $22, students and seniors are $17, UConn/ECSU/QVCC students ...

A painting party and presentation on the infamous Radium Girls. The event starts at 6 p.m. Oct. 26 at Miss Laura's Brothel Museum, 2 North B St. in downtown Fort Smith.

In the 1920s, a group of women using radium to paint watch dials unknowingly sealed their fate, exposing themselves to a deadly substance that would forever change their lives. Radium Girls, now ...

Complete Information About Radium Girls in Norfolk at Little Theatre of Norfolk. "Radium Girls" highlights Grace, Irene, and Kathryn who paint dials in the U.S. Radium plant and are instructed to ...

Based on real events, Radium Girls focuses on the young 14- to 15-year-olds who were working in these U.S. factories using paintbrushes. In their exacting work, the girls went from paint to lips ...

Radium Girls will be on stage in Mount Vernon High School’s Andrew Lee Pauley Theater which is also known as the little theater by door 4, on Nov. 14 and 15 at 7 p.m., with a 1p.m. matinee on ...