![]() Called a 'powerful' and 'engrossing' drama by critics, Radium Girls offers a wry, unflinching look at the peculiarly American obsessions with health, wealth, and the commercialization of science. Written with warmth and humor, Radium Girls is a fast-moving, highly theatrical ensemble piece for 9 to 10 actors, who play more than 30 partsefriends, co-workers, lovers, relatives, attorneys, scientists, consumer advocates, and myriad interested bystanders. Negligent factory managers knew it could be harmful - but tol. Radium Corporation, but with her own family and friends, who fear that her campaign for justice will backfire. Radium-infused paint that glowed green in the dark was once a trendy feature for wrist watches. By 1930, all dial painters stopped pointing their brushes by mouth. Public Domain Hughes' testimony gained worldwide attention. The disease, radium-induced osteonecrosis, was recognized as an occupational disease in 1925 after a group of radium painters, known as the Radium Girls, from the United States Radium Corporation sued. As the case goes on, however, Grace finds herself battling not just with the U.S. The Radium Girls' Legacy Katherine Schaub (left) and Grace Fryer (right) were two of the women who filed suit against the United States Radium Corporation in 1927. Her chief adversary is her former employer, Arthur Roeder, an idealistic man who cannot bring himself to believe that the same element that shrinks tumors could have anything to do with the terrifying rash of illnesses among his employees. Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court. In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rageeuntil the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease. The Radium Girls were a group of female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials with glow-in-the-dark paint at the United States Radium factory in Orange, New Jersey around 1917.
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