"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:

Ernest W. Marland, Oklahoma oilman, gave a housewarming to open his $2,000,000 mansion at Ponca City. The 100 guests were dined, entertained by famed vaudevillians, presented with silver loving, cups. But the party was early and sober, for all 100 guests were small children, young proteges of Magnate Marland.

Col. William Boyce Thompson, director of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., active Republican, gave $350,000 to Phillips Exeter Academy for science and administration buildings.

Benjamin Winter, onetime Polish errand boy, continued his gigantic rearrangements of Manhattan real estate by purchasing from Arthur Curtiss James, famed yachtsman and the largest individual U. S. holder of railroad securities, an apartment house on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 81st street. The apartment house, known to phrase-coiners as the house of the golden doorknobs, was the first one in Manhattan to decoy rich tenants out of their private homes. Among its other magnificent appurtenances, it now contains Elihu Root, Murry Guggenheim, Ira Nelson Morris, Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn.

His Excellency Nedjati Bey, Turkish Minister of Education, ordered last week 500 copies of a book by a U. S. Negro which has been translated into Turkish and published by the International College at Smyrna. Book: Up From Slavery. Negro: the late Booker T. Washington.

Harry K. Thaw, Pittsburgh richman, killer of Architect Stanford White (1906), was tapped on the shoulder as he prepared to disembark from the Aquitania at Southampton, England. A steward asked him to go to the lounge where a British immigration official told him that he was not permitted to set foot on British soil. The only reason given him was "instructions from the Home Office." Befuddled, vexed, Mr. Thaw told reporters: "This is amazing. I cannot understand it at all. England was fair and square when I was here before, 23 years ago. ... I am a friend of Secretary Mellon. I have wired him. . . ." Later, Mr. Thaw obtained a French visa, left the Aquitania at Cherbourg, motored to Paris. But Secretary Mellon had not helped him.

Charles Spencer Chaplin, funnyman, picked up a garden hose, squirted it. He was serious. He was helping to fight a fire at the American-Russian Eagle Club in Hollywood, Calif. His efforts were stopped when an explosion of leaking gas wrecked the building and injured eight people. Among those present and unhurt were Jack Dempsey & wife (Estelle Taylor), Richard Dix, Renee Adoree, John McCormick & wife (Colleen Moore), Marquis de la Falaise (husband of Gloria Swanson). The owner of the nightclub, Theodore Lodiginsky, 56, onetime Russian general, was seriously injured.