page_title: Bernard H. Paul
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Bernard H. Paul / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: A circa 1912 photograph of puppeteer and educator Bernard H. Paul (1907-2005).
context_page_description: Bernard H. Paul was a puppeteer best known for his traveling show and television broadcasts of "Paul's Puppets". His marionette show ran for 10 years on WBAL-TV in Baltimore. In 1931 he performed the first known children's television show.
  Paul also did the first professional puppet show for a United States president when he performed at the White House for Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife in 1934.
context_section_description: Bernard Paul was born on April 22, 1907, in Baltimore, Maryland, the only child of Henry James Paul and Mary Paul. He was born in a private hospital called Bidler and Sellman. He went by the nickname "Bernie". The family lived in Baltimore on Lanvale Street for a while and later moved to a house on Gilmore Street.
  They moved to a neighborhood called Linthicum Heights in 1919 when Paul was 12 years old. Paul's father designed and built the house that was located on Hawthorne Road. That homesite had many flower and vegetable gardens.
  
  Paul attended Linthicum Elementary School, where he first met his future wife, Edith "Edee" Rogers.
caption: Bernard Paul, c. 1912
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