Max died on February 13, 1952, in a nursing home in Bayside, Queens, called Edgewater Rest, at the age of 85.
[2] Max and Lolita appeared in a hit play Fine Feathers in 1913 co-starring Wilton Lackaye and Robert Edeson.
He later joined the company of Willie Edouin in Fun in a Photographic Gallery and appeared in four plays with Mrs. Fiske: Miranda of the Balcony, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler and Mary of Magdala.
From 1909 to 1910, he toured in Mary Jane's Pa and in February 1912 was at Daly's Theatre New York in The Truth Wagon.
[1] When the originally cast actress in Fine Feathers, Alice Stone, fell sick, Lolita was offered her role of Jane Reynolds.