The Radium Girls was a nickname coined for female factory workers who suffered radiation poisoning while painting watch dials in the early 1900s. To get a fine tip with their paint brushes ...
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 ...
The Columbus State University production of "These Shining Lives" opens Nov. 8 at CSU's Riverside Theatre Complex in downtown Columbus, Georgia. Written by Melanie Marnich, the play is based on the ...