Grand Opera House

i 'barias Frohinan will present at tlie Grand Opera House next Saturday evening what is universally conceded to be the brightest comedy 'by William Gillott. "Too Much Johnson.'" The production comes to Ann Arbor with the prestige of an entire seaspn's run in New York. "Too Much Johnson" is ingeniously named, for the tille tells the story. Augustus Billinsrs is a New Yorker of today. He, a married man, flirts innocently with a lady vvho is somebody else's wife, bef ore the story begins. Mr. Billings, to cover bis visits tí) the fair onc, tells his wife that he has a plantation in Cuba. One day wife and mother-in-law propose to visi t thisoastlc in Spain He is corapelled to take them. He has never been in Cuba, and knows notbing of the place, but he pins his faith to a friend of his, who really has a plantation at that place. But that friend has just sold out to a man named Johnson. Johnson is the name Bilbngs has assumed in his llirtations. A;órst of all, the husband of the lady with the flirtatious propensities follows Billings -on board the ship bonnd for Cuba. The firstman he meets on his arrival ;it Cuba mistakes him for his father-in-law. and greets him as such, this man is Johnson, who really owns the plantation. He is dolightedtosee Mrs. Billings, also Johnson is. He thinks Mrs. Billings is his fiancee, Billings tells his folks that Johnson is his overscer. Johnson is engaged to Miss I-'addish, and ho is expecting her and her fatbor by the samo boat. The Faddishes arrive later, but that does not disconcert Billings. He introduces them to Johnson as pooi rolations, and Johnson drawing a line at pooi: relations, insiste that they shall work for their keep. This forms a mass of continuously uproarous j uations. Whlcfa are never untangled ! til the disclosure of the truc state of all'airs, which does not occur until a moment beforc the eurtain falls.