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

Next to the drawing is the word “Vamp,” slang from ... reported that the image could be that of screen femme fatale Theda Bara, who epitomized the vamp (female vampire) image and was a huge ...