Why can you see a cross from the Bowl?
Christine Wetherill Stevenson was the heiress the the Pittsburgh Paint fortune. She helped to sponsor the Hollywood Bowl, as a place for performances and religious services. When supporters of the Bowl split over the nature and frequency of those services, she withdrew her patronage and moved to a piece of property across the Cahuenga Pass, where she opened the The Pilgrimage Theater in 1920 as the permanent home of her work, The Pilgrimage Play, which was performed there for 44 years until it was shut down in 1964 for religious reasons. In 1941, Stevenson died and the theater errected a forty foot cross in her memory, which can now be seen from the Hollywood Bowl lit by neon.
After her death, the county still used the location for plays and musical events, but it began to fall into disrepair. When County Superintendent John Anson Ford raised money for refurbishing, they named the theater after him.
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