 In 1903, Henderson was interviewed by a reporter and came off something of a bigot embarrassing herself when she refused to act with a black player in the rehearsals of the Broadway cast of "My Wife's Husband".The black player Moses Fairfax had a part that was important to the play.Having been raised in the South, she explained that blacks and whites did not socialize to the point of a black calling a white woman by her first name.