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Show Max Figman'sNfcw Play Somcthtng of the Play 'to Which He Appears Here Next Tuesday. Mai i'lguian, the eminent actor, comes here next Tuesday at the head of his own company, presenting "Tho B Man On tho llox." Flgman played B Denver the latter pai t of October, and the following comment on him and the play is takcti from the Denver Tost. Itsayc. "No man is a hero to his valet That is ancient wUdom. Hut Is a servant ever a hero to hismUtrciS' That is tho question raised by Max Kigman In I "The Man On the llox," the most light-hearted comedy that has been put on the stage for years. It Is light as air, yet It Is full of humor and there Is not so much as a single breath of cynicism in it from beginning to end b 'Therefore, it will succeed; for people arc tired of witticisu.s that leave a bitter taste iu the mouth and of players play-ers who bccm to have been born sneering, sneer-ing, like l'ooh Hah. Max Flgman has tho glorious asset of Joyous youth. He is wholesome to look upon, handsome indeed, though not a curled and petted pet-ted darling; he is bubbling over with the Joy of life and It Is innocent Joy, not the Ibsen I te poison which belles that fair name. What did the gentleman gentle-man do that ho should bo made a play ofV Only a peccadillo, llccarriedoff tho wrong lidy, kissed her rapturously before he found out his mistake, was Incontinently given in charge, spent the night Iu the lock up, and faced I the magistrate next moruiDg on a 'charge of abduction and disorderly |