Website, paper, and performance. Up next, a 10 minute performance by three middle school students. This is glowing girls triumph and tragedy of the radium women. I will be playing grace briar. I will be playing catherine hsu. My name is making, and i was a radium girl. Im here to tell you the story of how my coworkers, some of my closest friends passed away from radium poisoning. In 1913, radium paint was commercially produced in america for the first time. A year later, u. S. Radium corporation was founded in orange, new jersey. They began producing radium paints and radium parts for american businesses. During world war i, 95 of radio was being used for military purposes, but a small amount was being made into fashionable products such as shampoo, facial cosmetics, clothes, watches. It was even being added to water. The popularity of radium began to spread all over america because of a scientist named to because of a polish scientist named marie curie, who discovered radium onto summ
NOVI The Novi High School Theatre will shine light on the subject of radium poisoning and how it impacted women in the workforce during the Roaring ’20s with its production of the one-act play “These Shining Lives.