Cosmopolitan New York always attracts the largest stagle bloc of vacation are and invariably presents the most wanted selections of entertainment in the country. Next week is no exception.

Sports

Jamaica opens Monday with the Paumonock Handicap as the inaugural feature. First post time in 1:15 p.m. daily.

Theatre

Green Features whipped through Boston a while hack, and now the Maro Connelly revival is drawing them to the Broadway Theatre, 53rd Street west of Broadway. The Hall Johnson chair helps out in the striking dramatization of the Roark Bradford approach to God.

Louis Jouvet holds the ANTA stage on 52nd Street until Tuesday with Moliere's classic, School for Wives. The talented troupe of the Theatre de l'Athenee performs in its native French.

Lecturer Robert Chapman's Billy Budd keeps getting last minute extensions of its life at the Biltmore on 47th. Dennis King stars in the Herman Melville tale. Tennessee Williams is trying to maintain his lofty reputation with The Rose Tattoo at the Martin Beck on 45th; some like it very much, but all agree it is not his beat.

Clifford Odets has finally regained his prewar success. The Country Girl with Paul Kelley and Uta Hagen is rolling along at the Lyocum, 45th Street, Sidney Kingsley has adapted Arthur Koestlear's powerful Darkness at Noon to the Royale stage, on 45th Street. Claude Raise portrays the Communist pioneer who faces the ultimate extension of his own logic.

Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer are perpetuating a happy marriage at the Barrymore Theatre on 47th, where they grace John van Druken's' Hall, Book, and Candle. Robert E. Sherwood revised Philip Barry's Second Thresheld, with Olive Brook and Margaret, Phillips at the Morosco, 45th.

Lillian Helman, another powerful voice out of the recent past, has a now drama at the Coronet at 49th Street. The Autumn Garden stars Frederic March, Florence Eldridge, Jane Wyatt, and Kent Smith. Movie star Olivia de Havilland is leading a company of Romeo and Juliet at the Broadhurst, on 44th.

Twentieth Century, still another revival, heads the list of comedies. Jose Ferrer and Gloria Swanson perform remarkably, an the script is a classic. Edward Everett Horton is the whole show is springtime for Henry, at the Golden until Monday, then down a door on West 45th to the Booth. Celeste Holm and others appear in Affaire of State at the Music Box on 45th.

F. Hugh Herbert's The Moon is Blue graces the Henry Miller on 43rd with the presence of Barbara Bel Goddes, Barry Nelson, and Donald Cook, while Welcott Gibbs' Fire Island comedy, Season in the Sun, continues at the Cort on 48th. Eddie Dowling and Joan McCracken close after the weekend at the Booth in Angel in the Pawnshop.

Rogers and Hammerstein have brought The King and I down from Boston to the St. James, on 44th, where their Oklahoma! ran so long, but the rest of the musical scene seems dominated by old-timers.

Cole Porter's Out of This World features Charlotte Greenwood and Porter's music at the Century, up on 59th. The critics gave this munch-touted show a going-over.

Most successful of the musicals right now is Guys and Dolis, the Damon Runyon tale starring Vivian Blaine and Sam Levene, at the 48th Street Theatre.