Career

Claire Evens was the only child of Edward and Louise Evens. On the 1920 United States census Edward Evens listed his occupation as investigator for the United States Government. Arthur Evens served in the United States Army overseas during World War I, January 1918 - March 1919.

Arthur told the police of a lovers’ quarrel and declared that their lives had been unhappy due to parental enmity (in particular, on the part of the wife’s father, Albert T Daniels).

Helen was buried in New New York In February 1928, Helen"s parents supplied new information to police about Helen"s death, but in April, a coroner"s jury ruled that Helen ended her own life.

Arthur thereupon married Iris Ashton Badger, a 29-year-old actress with whom he had been living for months. At the same time, he was convicted of vagrancy and sentenced to 60 days in jail.

Arthur Evens, who used the name Arthur Saint Claire, wrote scenarios in Hollywood from the 1920s until the late 1940s.

He recycled some of the events of his wife"s suicide in fictional form in his screenplay, Delinquent Daughters (1944), the story of how a town is shocked when a high school girl commits suicide. Many of Saint Claire’s screenplays were B-movies for Producers Releasing Corporation. He is best remembered today for writing Tiger Fangs, a candidate for the national film registry.