JJ - I stand corrected about the Academy awards.
Interesting account of Brabin Production of Ben Hur.

Thanks for your help Abby. Your links to the sheet music site were great. I've printed all 3 songs out. Two of songs are indexed with Theda Bara as a performer. The sheet music itself does not mention her as such. Neither does Golden mention that Theda sang at all professionally.
They may just have plonked a picture of Bara on the cover as a sales gimmick. I can't be sure.

The most relevant of these songs is called "At the Moving Picture Ball (A Photo-Play In 2 Reels.)" by Santly & Johnson. 1920. It Includes the line " And Theda Bara was a terror She vamped the little lady. It includes the intriguing tempo instruction "Tempo di Movie." The Chorus, however, should be played "Without a flicker." It's a ragtime thing and I've put it in my sequencer. I could send a MIDI file to anyone who's interested. If nothing more intriguing crops up, I'll probably learn this one.

She can be seen as partly responsible for putting a new word in to the english language - Vamp. In 1916 She appeared in a film called A Fool There Was. It was based on the poem by Rudyard Kipling . This poem was, in turn, based on a
painting by Philip Burne-Jones called "The Vampire." The model for this painting was Mrs. Patrick Campbell and they met decades later.

She made an appearance on the Groucho Marx Radio Show I'm trying to dig that up.

Lots of Pictures of my Ms.Bara-Brabin Theda

Rarer Images

Nieuport Biplane named Theda Bara

Theda Waxwork

IMDb Biography

1930 Census Form

She was divinely, hysterically, insanely malevolent.
- - - Bette Davis (about Theda Bara)

Men of the early 20 th century soon realized that a seemingly compliant house-hold nun could be deadly, a memory of Theda Bara's kohl-eyed appetites.
-Bram Dijkstra 1996 Evil Sisters

There is a range of Handbags called a Theda.