GR translation: Arab With A Big Greasy Nose

[Mike Jing]

P14.5-13   In 1935 he had his first episode outside any condition of
known sleep—it was during his Kipling Period, beastly Fuzzy-Wuzzies
far as eye could see, dracunculiasis and Oriental sore rampant among
the troops, no beer for a month, wireless being jammed by other Powers
who would be masters of these horrid blacks, God knows why, and all
folklore broken down, no Gary Grant larking in and out slipping
elephant medicine in the punchbowls out here . .. not even an Arab
With A Big Greasy Nose to perform on, as in that wistful classic every
tommy’s heard . . .

What is this classic with "an Arab With A Big Greasy Nose"?  And what
do they want to perform on him?