If the Community Advisory Committee for the proposed Caesars Palace Times Square casino wanted to prove it could draw a crowd, it succeeded before the first card was dealt. By nine o’clock, a handful of Broadway marquees were displaying “No Times Square Casino” in coordinated defiance, while on Park Avenue, at the Scandinavia House, construction union workers and theater folk lined up for entry to a public hearing that promised high stakes, frayed tempers and — just occasionally — a laugh.


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