There was a Radium Dance Group:And a Radium Cinema in Zurich:A French postcard imagined 21st-century people gathering around a radium-powered hearth:But, as in the case of Eben Byers, radium was often marketed as a health booster. Many cosmetic products contained radium, including the Tho-Radia line of creams, lipsticks, and other products that were sold in France in the 1930s and 1940s. The company cleverly enlisted the endorsement of a Dr. Alfred Curie, who, though no relation to Marie and Pierre Curie, lent an air of scientific respectability to the products:A lady seeking that healthful glow could also pick up Radior cosmetics, which promised that “radium possesses an enormous power for human betterment” and that “rays of radium in fact energize and revivify any living matter with which they come in contact.”You could even get a radium perm:Many products used radium as part of their name while carefully avoiding telling the consumer whether they actually contained any:There was a “Radium Spray:”And Radium Boot Polish:There was even Radium butter:Even after it became clear that radium products meant illness or death, companies tried to sell (non-radium) radioactive products, making dubious health claims. Some companies started to use radium paint to make the hands of their watches glow in the dark — a nifty, if trivial, use of the stuff. The so-called “Radium Girls,” who painted radium on watch hands to make them glow in the dark, suffered terrible fates.