The Broken Melody (1919)

Stewart an art student in the bohemian Greenwich Village in New York City lives next door to his girlfriend Hedda who wants to be a singer One night while they are dining at their favorite cafe a wealthy woman Mrs Trask comes up to them with a proposition she knows he is an artist and wants to go to Paris in order to study and develop his talent and she will pay all his expenses to allow him to do that He refuses because he doesnt want to leave Hedda but she eventually persuades him to agree It turns out that she as an ulterior motive for what shes doingas does Mrs Trask