Adrian Loring was the owner of most of the theatres on 42nd street and father of Armand Loring. His son had run away as a child, believing that he forgotten him. Adrian spent years trying to find his son and did, but in a Haiti prison. Adrian told Armand about Jasper Brunt and how he was stealing money from him and about the location of the evidence he had been gathering for a court trial. But before Adrian could take his case to court, and before Armand was released from prision, he confronted Brunt, in return Brunt set fire to the theatre Adrian was in and he died.[