Brilliantly staged and performed in the Van Duzer Theatre, the content is based on the tragic, true (often basically forgotten) story concerning the deadly results of radium poisoning unwittingly ...

Even today, Dr. Martland’s work on the radium girls and the effects of long-term alpha exposure is being cited and it’s not too far out to say that tens of thousands of people around the world ...

The fact that they were also sudden local celebrities — dubbed the “ghost girls ... at the time, Dr. Harrison Martland, was the first to prove the deaths were caused by radium poisoning.

Radium Girls" sounds like a rad girl band ... Kathryn (Tara Callahan), Irene (Sarah Legere), Mrs. Roeder (Lisa Kotula) and Dr. Von Sochocky (Jeff Clevenger). With nine actors in 38 roles and ...

About the time the women’s cases reached public attention, Dr. Sabin A. von Sochocky, Austrian inventor of radium paint, died in New Jersey, his teeth and fingers all gone (TIME, Nov. 26 ...

Lippmann wrote to Berry, "Dr. Hamilton has asked The World to interest ... Days before the case was to go to trial, Berry and the five "Radium Girls" agreed that each would receive $10,000 and ...

Auditions for Radium Girls by D.W. Gregory, directed by Tanya Feduik-Smith, will take place at Westport Community Theatre as follows (auditions will be from the script): Monday, July 22 @ 7:00 PM ...

Members of the Oswego High School Drama Club will perform a dramatic production of “Radium Girls” this November. In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity ...

Set in the early 20th century, “Radium Girls” tells the tale of New Jersey-based U.S. Radium Corp. The company manufactured watches using the element radium, which made their product glow in ...