Hilander Theater, Kelso High School's theater troupe, asks audiences that question with their production of "Radium Girls," ...

The play opens with Grace and her coworkers, dressed in drab sepia tones, painting with the neon glowing radium paint used to ...

In the 1920s when radium paint was introduced into the manufacture of clock dials in a New Jersey factory, the dangers of the newly developed material were still to be discovered.

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

The play opens with Grace and her coworkers, dressed in drab sepia tones, painting with the neon glowing radium paint used to illuminate watch faces in the 1900s. The girls begin playfully ...

(Elizabeth Marie Himchak) The glow was made possible through a paint that contained radium, a radioactive material. To get their paint brushes pointed enough to do the finely-detailed work ...

Come hell or high water — or hurricane, the show must go on. And go on it is! Theatre TSC, formerly Theatre TCC!, opened its production of "Radium Girls," by D.W. Gregory on Oct. 3. The show ...

The acclaimed work by Melanie Marnich follows the “Radium Girls” of the Radium Dial Company, who painted the faces of luminous watches and clocks with radioactive paint. Though protagonist Catherine ...

The play's setting is mostly 1920s New Jersey, where females received 47 cents per hour — good pay at the time — to paint "radium dials." These dials were on certain instruments and painted ...