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New Lansing theater company shows much promise with first production

There’s a new theater company in town, and it’s off to a very good start. Alive Theatre’s first production, “These Shining Lives,” by Melanie Marnich, is based on the tragic and true story of the Radium Dial Co., which used radioactive luminescent paint to illuminate clock and watch faces, resulting in devasting and deadly bouts of cancer for the women employed there.

'These Shining Lives' illuminates a story of negligence, accountability

MARION — The cast and crew of the Marion Art Center’s production “These Shining Lives,” written by Melanie Marnich, aren’t

Increased child care subsidy to assist Bendigo families: Chesters | Bendigo Advertiser

Increased childcare subsidy to assist Bendigo families: Chesters | Bendigo Advertiser

Siskin's Charlotte Purcell Completes Her Clinical Doctorate

The Tricky Business of Clean Fragrance

Poem contest Reading Insights Vol.31_The Radium Girls

  Radium. It was a wonder element; everyone knew that. Each dial-painter had her own supply. She mixed her own paint, dabbing a little radium powder into a small white crucible and adding a dash of water and a gum arabic adhesive: a combination that created a greenish-white luminous paint, which went under the name “Undark.” Even as she watched, little puffs of it seemed to hover in the air before settling on the shoulders or hair of a dial-painter at work. To her astonishment, it made the girls themselves gleam. “We put the brushes in our mouths,” Katherine said, quite simply. It was a technique called lip-pointing, inherited from the first girls who had worked in the industry, who came from china-painting factories.