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whom he would rush off to see frequently. Beerbohm's career is said to be the longest of any modern-day theatre cat and lasted until his retirement in 1991, when he went to live with Tony Ramsey, the theatre's master carpenter, in
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Beerbohm is said to have survived being run over by a car on the streets of Soho. He was said to have had a girlfriend at the
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