AIR TRIP STOPPED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 123, 26 May 1932, Page 11

AIR TRIP STOPPED.

BUSTER'S COMEDY DRAMA. MASTER IN HIS OWN HOUSE? Buster Keaton, the film star, came home to Hollywood recently after an aeroplane trip, which, he said, proved to iho world "who is boss in my house." -Mr. Keaton, with his two small eons, aged eight and nine respectively, and t.iieir nursemaid, took off on a journey tn Mexico "to look at a farm and bring the kids back to Nature." But his expedition was interrupted by his wife, formerly Natalie Talmadge and youngest of three Talmadge sisters. She telephoned to San Diego, with the result that father and children were detained <iii hour by the police for questioning. "The frozen faced" pantomime artist, ;is he is called, protested volubly. The authorities seized the 'plane, which is owned by Hoot Gibscvn, the cowhoy actor. They freed Mr. Keaton, however, when he promised to return home by automobile. Mrs. Keaton refused to admit that there is strife in the Keaton household, but she admitted she became "real soi«" when her husband, without consulting her, flew awav, taking the children with him. She denied asking tho San Diego police to arrest her husband, hut said that she desired them to seize the ehil(Uxa. and send them back by motor car.