She died on July 27, 1938, the day after Radium Dial’s attorneys filed their next appeal. Donohue survived long enough to know that the company’s first appeal before the Commission was unanimously denied. The Radium Dial Company filed numerous appeals. In 1938, after more testimony before the Illinois Industrial Commission, including Donohue’s from her sickbed after she collapsed at the hearing, the Ottawa dial-painters won their case. By that time, the Radium Dial Company had closed its Ottawa plant, opened one in New York, and claimed the previous company was defunct. Their lawyer, Leonard Grossman, had accepted the case only two days earlier.
Another two years passed before the Ottawa women had their hearing on Jwith the Illinois Industrial Commission. As with the New Jersey case, the statute of limitations stymied debilitated Ottawa dial-painters in 1935 when Donohue and others tried to sue. The dial-painters in Ottawa, Illinois would have read news coverage about the New Jersey workers, but the Radium Dial Company claimed that it was the element mesothorium that was the culprit in New Jersey and that Radium Dial paint was safe because it contained no mesothorium-only radium. On June 4, 1928, the New Jersey women accepted an out-of-court settlement. Tickets are available for purchase online ta and at the box office on the night of the performance.“Settlement of a Pathetic Case,” The Evening Star (Washington, DC), June 5, 1928, p. The cast of Radium Girls has two more performances on Nov. Somber moments were interrupted by comic relief in appropriate moments and the play had a great blend of comedy, tragedy and romance.
Fryer, who was played by senior Emma Peterson, and Roeder, the owner of the factory who was played by senior Jared Wood, battled for justice and compensation over Fryer’s work-related illness.Īccompanied by an amazing sets and light displays the cast of Radium Girls, led by Peterson and Wood, evoked feelings such as pain and laughter from the audience.
Radium girls cast professional#
“Radium Girls” tells the story of how a simple and seemingly harmless job tore up many professional and personal lives of the girls that were affected as well as the owners of the factories and their legal teams. The costumes fit the era and the sound was clear and coherent throughout.
Radium girls cast skin#
Cast members had fake surgery wounds and rotting skin on their cheeks which appeared very real and convincing from a distance. Most impressive of all of the crews, the hair and makeup crew did amazing special effects makeup to show the physical effects of the radium exposure. Tapping into emotions when needed, the actors accurately portrayed their characters’ emotions and were able to convince the audience of their characters’ struggles. Overall, the play was cast well and the actors seemed well prepared for their performance. The cast and crew transported the audience back to the 1920’s to hear the story of Grace Fryer, a young woman who was one of the many girls who got very sick from painting watches and other military equipment with radium so that it would glow in the dark. Narrating the 1926 story of how dial painters in World War 1 factories fell gravely ill due to radium exposure, the CPHS theatre department performed the play “Radium Girls” by D.W.
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