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I am researching a biography of Ronald Colman for Greenwood Press and I am trying to locate prints of TV shows he did for "Four Star Playhouse," "The Halls of Ivy," "G.E. Theater," "Studio 57" and "The Jack Benny Show." I am also trying to locate copies of his first and last radio shows, both for NBC: "A Tale of Two Cities" (1935) and "A Christmas Carol" (1956), plus his appearance on the NBC game show "Double or Nothing" in 1951. If you know the whereabouts of any of these radio and TV shows, please write me. SAM FRANK P.O.B.

Three top chefs, 24 seats and you've got to get lucky to buy a ticket. LOCATION 716 N. Highland Ave., Los Angeles, troismec.com PRICES $75 for a multi-course tasting menu. DETAILS Pre-paid online tickets only for dinner Mondays to Fridays. Beer and wine. Lot parking.

I hope some of your readers can help me. I am trying to locate Milton L. Barnard, John D. McElroy and William H. Vaughan. They enlisted in the Navy in the Los Angeles area in the 1940s era and served on the USS Chevalier (DD-451). The reason I am trying to locate them is because my father was killed in action during the loss of the Chevalier on Oct. 6, 1943. I was only 4 years old at the time of his death. I am attempting to fill a void in my life by learning about him from survivors of the Chevalier.

The Cheesecake Factory is at once an ostentatious den of dining and decorative excess as well as a homespun throwback to family tradition. Witness the florid murals and French-inspired checked floors, the dozens of cheesecakes in sumptuous flavors such as white chocolate caramel macadamia and the calorie-laden dishes that regularly land the chain on extreme eating lists. But behind the extravagant menu and interior design, there's a classically American story involving an entrepreneurial housewife and a cheesecake tweaked from a newspaper recipe.

For research purposes, I am trying to locate former black members who were connected or affiliated with the Civilian Corps (CCC) during the 1930s and 1940s. It is known that many of these persons reside in California and areas serviced by the Los Angeles Times. As a native of Oakland, I have over the years become very interested in to what extent black Californians participated in the CCC, one of the most popular relief agencies created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Depression years.

I wonder if there are enough people to help me start a "one WO-man" campaign to encourage (or force) business establishments to display their address in numbers large enough to read from a passing vehicle. I have heard so many of my friends, neighbors, etc., complain because the traffic is so heavy that one can barely slow down to locate a specific address on a business or store that is new to them. Very few businesses display an address, or, if they do, the numerals are very small or in a location that is not visible when passing in a vehicle.

I've been a Dodger fan for over 30 years and I'm really excited. With the addition of John Shelby, Phil Garner, Danny Heep and now Tito Landrum, we finally have a team that could give the '27 Yankees a run for their money. Provided, of course, that you could still locate at least nine of those Yankees. BEN OSTROW Van Nuys

Thank you for Tom Winters' article on Jarbidge and the surrounding area ["Hot Peaks and Cool Views in Nevada," June 7]. My brothers and I used to hunt and fish the area in the '60s and '70s. Judging from his descriptions, not much has changed. It is one of the least-visited wilderness areas I have been to. The picture of Emerald Lake brings back memories of trying to locate it on a cold and snowy day, only to return in defeat, after getting lost. Some years later we finally got there and took an amazing shot of the frozen lake.

"Drawback to Owning Bearer Bonds" (Money Talk, Nov. 7) would have us believe the usual Internal Revenue Service propaganda that Congress outlawed the tax-free aspects of bearer-bonds in order to eliminate the problem of locating the bondholders on the part of the bond issuers. That is not true. Congress' intent was for the IRS, not the issuers, to be able to locate the bondholders, and the easiest way to accomplish this was to require that tax-free municipals must be registered bonds.

The pro and con arguments about casual workers loitering in Glendale's commercial zones are difficult to mesh. It is the difference between freedom and restriction. These approaches should be considered: Set up a placement booth at which the workers would check in and register; Have employers contact the placement personnel to hire their required casual people; Locate the placement booth on city property, say, in the parking lot at City Hall. The registration requirement should help assure various payroll taxes are paid, and the City Hall location should rid the commercial zones of the loitering complaints.

Sherry Tedeschi is an avid moviegoer, typically hitting a film a week, sometimes two or three. The Beverly Hills resident usually patronizes the AMC Century City 15 multiplex so she can poke around the Westfield mall after the show. She buys packets of discounted AMC tickets at Costco. So it was with more than a little dismay that Tedeschi, 69, learned recently that, beginning July 8, her discounted AMC tickets will be slapped with a $2 "location surcharge. " Such fees are a sneaky way that ticket prices are being jacked up at a time when audiences are shrinking and average costs to catch a flick already are near a record high.

A new smartphone app, debuting next month for iPhones and iPads, will help people locate legal but often hidden access points to Malibu beaches as well as places to plop down on the sand once they get there. The app, called Our Malibu Beaches, is the enterprising idea of Jenny Price, an environmental writer who has made a mission of seeking out beach access through some of the least accessible and most coveted land along the coast of California. If only Los Angeles County and the state could be as ingenious in helping beachgoers use those paths.

What if you want to make a coin disappear - to one moment display it in the palm of your hand and the next pull it out of a friend's ear? What if you'd like to say to a stranger, "Pick a card, any card," then shuffle the deck and, just like that, produce the right one? How do you learn to turn a handkerchief into flowers? To push a bottle cap through the glass bottom of a Coke bottle? You probably could hop on the Internet and watch a YouTube video. But really, where's the magic in that?

The NFL will celebrate its 50th Super Bowl in Northern California, where its newest, most high-tech venue is being built. That makes South Florida, in the midst of a spat over expensive stadium renovations, a loser for the 2016 game. And Miami took a double defeat when Houston was awarded the 2017 championship game. In separate votes, NFL owners Tuesday went with the San Francisco Bay Area and Houston on the first ballot at their spring meetings. The 49ers' new home is set to open next year in Santa Clara and will host the first Super Bowl in the area since 1985.

Cinemark Holdings Inc., the nation's third-largest theater chain, is bulking up in Los Angeles County with plans to open a multiplex at the SouthBay Pavilion shopping mall in Carson. Vintage Real Estate, which owns and manages SouthBay Pavilion, said it had recently signed a lease with Cinemark to bring a 14-screen theater to the mall. Set to open in December 2014, the multiplex will be among the highest-profile locations for Cinemark in the Los Angeles region. PHOTOS: Celebrities by The Times The Plano, Texas, circuit, which has 5,259 movie screens in the U.S. and Latin America, already has a dozen cinemas in the Los Angeles area and is expanding its footprint in Southern California.

The St. Joseph Center, a provider of social services, has invited the community to attend a July 2 presentation about its plan to find permanent housing with supportive services for 40 chronically homeless people. In May, the center's staff and volunteers fanned out across the neighborhood to question the homeless in an effort to locate the 40 people most in danger of dying on the street. Center staff and Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky will be on hand to describe the methodology and results of the survey.

Canadian police have finally found the hideout of the "Bushman of the Shuswap" who repeatedly taunted them through the media as he eluded capture for two years. Police captured John Bjornstrom in November, but it was not until last week that they were able to locate his hideout in the rugged mountains of south-central British Columbia near Shuswap Lake. Tips from boaters on the lake helped locate the hideout, which included "an elaborate underground shelter carved into the rock hillside," the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a statement Friday.