Gus: The Theatre Cat Gus: The Theatre Cat "Gus: The Theatre Cat" is a poem by T. S. Eliot included in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Known as "The Theatre Cat" due to his career as an actor, Gus is an old and frail, yet revered, cat, who "suffers from palsy, which makes his paws shake." His coat is described as "shabby" and he is "no longer a terror to mice or to rats." Gus, whose full name is Asparagus, is also a character in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical adaption of the book, "Cats". In the musical, the poem is used almost verbatim
Possum Trot Church himself and his wife until he graduated. His offer was accepted, and upon his graduation in 1976, it became staff housing. Possum Trot Church Possum Trot Church was built around 1850 in Rome, Georgia, United States, and was appropriated by Martha Berry as a Sunday school in 1900. The school grew to become Berry College. The original church building still stands on the Berry campus. The Possum Trot Church is known as the "cradle of Berry College." It was first built around the 1850s. The old church was appropriated by Martha Berry for the Possum Trot Sunday School in 1900.