Century-old graffiti under the Lincoln Memorial may depict silent-film star Theda Bara ... Mike Litterst speculates that Bara's 1915 film "A Fool There Was" may have inspired the drawing, created ...

Theda Bara plays the social-climbing Olga Dolan ... handedly begun the "vamp" craze with the prototype of the genre, A Fool There Was, went out with little more than a whisper.