HOLLAND — A group of area teens will be performing a play showcasing their acting talents at The Holland Community Theatre the next two weekends. The show “Radium Girls,” detailing the true story of a ...

They are scrubbing down Apartment 507. Men and women in white lab coats, protected by plastic masks, are vacuuming radioactive dust from the wooden floorboards and scraping radium off the walls.

In the early days of the 20th century, the United States Radium Corporation had factories in New Jersey and Illinois, where they employed mostly women to paint watch and clock faces with their ...

UCO's Department of Theatre Arts presents an online streaming production of DW Gregory's Radium Girls. The true story of the Radium Girls is a stranger-than-fiction, shocking scenario that really ...

A century ago, glow-in-the-dark watches were an irresistible novelty. The dials, covered in a special luminous paint, shone all the time and didn’t require charging in sunlight. It looked like magic.

TAFE: Theatre Arts for Everyone presents the historically-based play, Radium Girls, from April 25th-27th under the direction of Crystal Ganong. Inspired by true events, Radium Girls is an award ...

Joey King and Abby Quinn play young women working under dangerous conditions in a 1920s radium factory in Lydia Dean Pilcher and Ginny Mohler's drama 'Radium Girls.' By Frank Scheck You can feel the ...

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 Duzer Theatre ...

In 1911 Marie Curie was awarded the second of her two Nobel Prizes, both connected to her discovery of radium. The radioactive element was initially hailed as a miracle substance, credited with curing ...