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| - Noa's initial performance in the early syndicated episodes is that of a busy but otherwise fairly staid newspaperman (who takes on new reporter Clark Kent with no experience and praises his initial reports). However, as the series developed, Noa's portrayal of the Daily Planet editor grew louder, angrier, and blusterier, prone to firing employees (and then rehiring) and outbursts such as "It's my gasket and I'll blow it if I want to!" In essence, Noa "was able to develop the character independent of a pre-existing comic book history. It was Noa's portrayal of the hot-headed White that became the character's standard for his personality in comic books."
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| - Noa's initial performance in the early syndicated episodes is that of a busy but otherwise fairly staid newspaperman (who takes on new reporter Clark Kent with no experience and praises his initial reports). However, as the series developed, Noa's portrayal of the Daily Planet editor grew louder, angrier, and blusterier, prone to firing employees (and then rehiring) and outbursts such as "It's my gasket and I'll blow it if I want to!" In essence, Noa "was able to develop the character independent of a pre-existing comic book history. It was Noa's portrayal of the hot-headed White that became the character's standard for his personality in comic books." In addition to Perry White, Noa often doubled in other roles, usually beleagured authority figures or old men, but he also recurred during the first syndicated year as the Yellow Mask, one of Superman's chief adversaries. In the 1939 audition discs which preceded the series proper, Noa played the contentious Kryptonian council head Rozan in the first media adaptation of Superman's origin.
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