Von Sochocky (a solid John Musgrave) and devious Charlie Lee (Andre Leben) advised against it, saying it would ruin the entire company and send it into bankruptcy. Students at Avon High School rehearse 'Radium Girls' for virtual performances beginning Feb. Roeder felt horribly responsible and wanted to help out those who got sick, but his advisers like Dr. By play’s end, all three girls die horrible deaths. Terrible medical problems came later due to the radium affecting their bones, their tongues, their teeth and sometimes their brains. They start getting sick after wetting their paintbrushes on their lips so the brushes come to a point to paint the small numbers on the watches. Elizabeth Southerland has a PhD in Environmental Science and Engineering from Virginia Tech. Grace, as well as Kathryn Schaub (Sydney Harmon wearing ghostly makeup) and Irene Rudolph (Kayli Smith) are all “dial painters” who are excited about having a good job that pays well. Cast Joey King, Abby Quinn, Cara Seymour, Scott Shepherd, Colby Minifie, Olivia Macklin PANELISTS Dr.
Its president, Arthur Roeder (played thoughtfully by Matt Brown) is an idealistic man who can’t bring himself to believe that the same element that shrinks tumors has 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 soft-spoken, affecting Caitlyn Kyong) as she fights her former employer, the U.S.
They didn’t know that the luminous paint, which contained a small amount of radium, was actually deadly. Gregory, focuses on the young girls who were hired as factory works to paint watch dials.
RADIUM GIRLS CAST MOVIE
And yet, as narrative text at the end of the movie reminds us, radium paint continued to be used well into the 1960s, putting countless lives at risk.“Radium Girls,” a 1999 play by D. The case forced a reckoning within American industry, as workers realized they could sue their employers for unsafe working conditions, forcing the latter to better regulate potential dangers. Please consult the guidelines outlined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before watching. Still, the women prevailed, and a jury awarded damages of $10,000 to each (roughly worth $150,000 in 2020), along with a $600 (about $9,000 now) a year payment for medical expenses. Indeed, by 1928, when the suit finally went to court, two were confined to their beds. Other student cast members play both a role and are in the ensemble and are listed below: Kathryn/ensemble, Paige Fields. The cast includes: WLU sophomore Delaney Bird as Grace Fryer and Arthur Roeder as Dan White. The reason? They knew many of the women wouldn’t live out the decade. Dates and times for Radium Girls are 7:30 p.m., Nov. For several years, the “radium girls,” as they were dubbed in the press, battled a company determined to let the proceedings drag on for as long as possible. In the 1920s, a group of five women led by plant worker Grace Fryer decided to sue American Radium. There were three main factories in the United States dedicated to this work, but the most famous is the one in Orange, NJ, where Radium Girls is set. Radium dial painting started gaining traction around 1917 in the United States, to provide watches that soldiers heading off to the trenches of Europe could read in the dark. Though Bessie and Jo are based on composites of real people, the story itself is rooted in truth.
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