Willats said "Radium Girls" the play is a ghost play, in that it's memories of what happened 100 years ago. "But, whether we like it or not, some memories appear to us with an agenda — with ...

They are suffering from radium poisoning contracted while painting luminous watch dials for the U. S. Radium Corp. (TIME, June 4, 1928 et seq). The company, after law suits, gave each woman ...

Last week in Orange, N.J., officials reported that radium poisoning, from licking brushes used in painting luminous watch dials, had claimed its 42nd victim when Lucy Sullivan, 57, a dial painter ...

The story unfolds when Donohue and her female co-workers discover they have radium poisoning. The play depicts the real-life events that unfolded in the early 1920s, in which four women, known as the ...

The University of Missouri has put on hold its plans to demolish radium-contaminated Pickard Hall while it conducts more ...

Rebates Start for Treating Wells Tainted by Radium December 21, 2005 By Daniel de Vise ...

The Susquehanna University Theatre Department will present “These Shining Lives,” a poignant drama by Melanie Marnich that brings to light the true story of the "Radium Girls” — women who ...

The film will include testimonies from the radium girls' children, who saw how the radium poisoning impacted the women through their life and the effects on their family, Watts said.

Of Fryer, who died at the age of 34 from radium poisoning, she said, “Her lines and character overall could easily be written off as just sad, but the fact is that each emotion she felt had a ...

Marie Curie at this time was definitely dealing with radium poisoning but she kept going. Hertha’s husband had passed in recent years but she kept plowing forward.